Re: 11i - CDE login does not come up upon boot

From: Mike Stroyan (stroyan_at_hpstryn2.fc.hp.com)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:00:22 GMT

Isaac Gerg <isaac.gergNOSPAM@adelphia.net> wrote:
> When I type in startx, X starts up. I get nothing on the screen though
> but a shell and can run programs such as xclock or twm. However, X does
> not start up upon machine boot.
>
>
> >
> > If you run
> > /usr/bin/X11/X :0
> > does the X server start up?
>
> No, I get the error:
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 0.
> If ..... remove /tmp/lock...

  Running /usr/bin/X11/X :0 should just be starting an X server.
It is simpler than startx. If startx can work then /usr/bin/X11/X :0
should work. Did you try to run X when X was already running from
a startx on the display?

> > How about if you run
> > /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -query $(hostname)
> > to tell the X server to ask dtlogin to start a login screen?
> >
>
> The system just seems to hang. Nothing happened for 10 minutes so I
> ctrl-Xed it.

  If you were getting an error message about "Server is already active
for display 0" with the -query option then I would expect the same
with the -query option. You could change $(hostname) to just your
system's hostname to simplify the test case. This should start an
X server that makes an XDMCP request that dtlogin would answer with
a dtgreet login screen program.

  I am wondering if the log files you are looking at are recent or
very old. Do they have dates that are consistent with the most recent
boot time? 

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