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.

I was signed on as root, not my user account, when I tar'd up home, so
none of my files should have been open. I deleted the lost+found
directory before running tar, so it wouldn't overwrite it on the new
filesystem.

"Robert DiRosario" <robert_dirosario@yahoo.com> wrote:

>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.

Did you restore the proper file ownerships and permissions?

"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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