Re: Gnome/Solaris 8 sparc dt login problems

[Laszlo PETER <Laszlo Peter ireland sun com>]

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