Unable to login to CDE as non root

[angelshark]

Hello,

I have a Sun Solaris 2.6 server to which I can login to CDE successfully as root but since this morning I can no longer login with any non root account, the screen just stays black and then the “Introduction to Desktop” help window shows up.

Here are the contents of the /var/dt/Xerrors file:

Wed Apr 14 16:49:19 2004
error (pid 26706): cannot read "C" message catalog. Using default language./usr/
openwin/bin/xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax

Anyone got any ideas about the cause of this problem?

Thanks in advance.

 

[xkjdhdg]

You need to go over /etc/ and look at you passwd file and see what the path settings are. Then try to go to that path.

 

[angelshark]

The path settings are correctly set with the right permissions for each user. Regular users can successfully telnet into the problematic machine, they just can't start a graphical session directly (CDE).

Thanks.

 

[daFranze]

I have no idea but I would do the following steps next:

move .dt to anotger place or name and try to logon again...
this is to find out, is it a user env problem, or the system's fault
can you do a "failsave session" logon? Do you get another errormessage?

maybe you get another hint...?

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[angelshark]

Hi there,

Thank you all for your help.

The problem was that the /tmp partition was 100% used and the dtdbcache command couldn't create the cache file for the user. I've freed some space in /tmp and now everybody can login to CDE without problems.

Thanks again.

 

[mikeclark]

Seeing Solaris puts /tmp into the swap space, I'm supprised no one complained about system performance.