Re: Gnome/Solaris 8 sparc dt login problems

["Colin Henry" <c_henry hotmail com>]

Hi,

Peter many thanks for the link, got slightly further. It seems that it has 
something to do with mounting a users home area using NFS. If I use my login 
I get two errors:

Nov  2 09:13:52 ln13d2swk nfs: [ID 664466 kern.notice] NFS link failed for 
server ln16p800hds: error 2 (RPC: Can't decode result)

which appears in the /var/adm/messages log and

** WARNING **: Unable to lock ICE authority file: /home/henryc/.ICEauthority

If I override my home dir in /etc/passwd and create a local home area then I 
can log in. I've tried copying the created files and dirs from the local 
home area to my NFS one, but it still dies with the same errors.

I've truss and snoop outputs available if required.

Many thanks in advance,

Colin


> From: Laszlo PETER <Laszlo Peter ireland sun com>
> Reply-To: Laca ireland sun com
> To: Colin Henry <c_henry hotmail com>
> CC: gnome-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Gnome/Solaris 8 sparc dt login problems
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:00:11 +0000
>
> Hi,
>
> Look at the technical FAQ at sun.com. This one might help you:
> http://www.sun.com/software/star/gnome/faq/gnome14techfaq.html#22
>
> Laca
>
> Colin Henry wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've downloaded and installed the Gnome v1.4 package from Sun and it 
> seems
> > to have installed OK. However, whenever I log in as myself (NIS login)
> > everything seems to be going OK, but then I'm dumped back at the dt 
> login
> > screen. If I log in as root then it works fine, which initially made me
> > think it was a permissioning problem, except people where I work are 
> having
> > the same problem but they cannot even get it to work as root.
> >
> > A CDE sessions as myself works OK.
> >
> > In my ~/home/.dt/startlog I get:
> >
> > --- Tue Oct 30 14:11:13 GMT 2001
> > --- /usr/dt/bin/Xsession starting...
> > --- Xsession started by Xsession
> > --- setting font path...
> > /usr/openwin/bin/xset:  bad font path element (#41), possible causes 
> are:
> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions (it does and the 
> perms
> > seem fine)
> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> > --- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsession_res -load -system
> > ...
> > /usr/dt/bin/ttsession[7567]: starting
> > /usr/dt/bin/Xsession[748]: 7533 Hangup
> > XIO:  fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> > "172.16.99.128:0.0"
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem? Also, does Gnome have a log 
> file/debugging
> > option that I can check.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance, and apologies if this question has been asked 
> before
> > (I did search the FAQ, Archives, Google etc).
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > Unix Sys Admin


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