Hello All,
The solution to my problem with openwindows was that the OPENWINHOME environment variable was
not getting set properly. Upon fixing this the user was able to run openwindows
from the CDE screen.
Thanks to :
karen@ecodev.FMR.Com (Karen Barrett)
Paolo.Pompili@mail.esrin.esa.it (Paolo Pompili)
cdonahue@mtb.phil.mop.com (Craig Donahue)
My other problem is still not solved. I know it has someting to do with
tooltalk. Can someone point to some documentation regarding tooltalk ?
The questions I had asked were:
>
> Hello SM's :
>
> I am seeking your expertise to unravel the solution to two problems about
which
> I am stumped ! So here goes -
> The machine is a sparc station 10 running Solaris 2.5 and CDE 1.0.1
>
> 1. The login screen allows the user to choose between CDE and
> Openwindows. However when a user tries to run openwindows, he is
> promptly brought back to the login screen ! Incidentally this
> particular beast is not a NIS+ client nor is it running NIS. All it
> runs is DNS. Also, I think root is able to run both CDE and
> Openwindows. So what gives ?
>
> 2. The user also gets the following error message on his console very
> frequently:
> Feb 19 09:16:27 sunbill rpc.ttdbserverd[5503]: NetISAM: read failed
> Feb 19 09:16:27 sunbill inetd[126]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child
> Status Changed
> Feb 19 09:16:29 sunbill rpc.ttdbserverd[7599]: NetISAM: read failed
> Feb 19 09:16:29 sunbill inetd[126]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child
> Status Changed
> Feb 19 09:16:30 sunbill rpc.ttdbserverd[7600]: NetISAM: read failed
> Feb 19 09:16:30 sunbill inetd[126]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child
> Status Changed
> Feb 19 09:16:32 sunbill rpc.ttdbserverd[7601]: NetISAM: read failed
> Feb 19 09:16:32 sunbill inetd[126]: /usr/dt/bin/rpc.ttdbserverd: Child
> Status Changed
>
Shridhar Deuskar
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