Re: CDE replaced with Java after home replacement

From: Alan Coopersmith (alanc_at_alum.calberkeley.org)
Date: 11/20/05


Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:12:01 +0000 (UTC)


"Robert DiRosario" <robert_dirosario@yahoo.com> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|I have a problem with CDE after replacing the /export/home disk on my
|Solaris 10 (Sparc) system.
|
|I had some bad blocks on the /export/home drive. As root I went to
|/export/home and tar'd up everything, installed a new drive and used
|tar to restore everything. Now, when I login using my user account, I
|have the Java desktop instead of CDE. I have a second account with the
|Java desktop as the default, and when I login to that account I still
|get the Java desktop. The root account, which uses CDE on / not
|/export/home, was not effected.
|
|What would cause this? Are there some special files that CDE uses that
|didn't get tar'd up OK? The .dt directory is still there.

The default session in Solaris is "what you logged into last time",
which is stored in ~/.dt/sessions/lastsession. To change it,
simply choose another session type on the Options menu on the login
screen when you login.

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