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I completed more tests. Below are the results.

1. /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -kill
done
dtlogin kill complete

2. su - daemon
// No problems here. Lets me su.

3. /usr/bin/X11/X
// appears to hang for about 5 min. Then HP logo appears. Then, I
get a grey screen with just the "X" mouse cursor. From here, I am
forced to reboot to get back to the console.

4. cat /var/X11/Xserver/logs/Xf86.0.log
// This file has 0 length, empty.
// Creation data of file is today though at a time just after
running the above tests.




Any other ideas or these I should try? I am really appreciating the help!

Best Regards,
Isaac

Isaac Gerg <isaac.gergNOSPAM@adelphia.net> wrote:
> I completed more tests. Below are the results.
>
> 1. /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -kill
> done
> dtlogin kill complete
>
> 2. su - daemon
> // No problems here. Lets me su.
>
> 3. /usr/bin/X11/X
> // appears to hang for about 5 min. Then HP logo appears. Then, I
> get a grey screen with just the "X" mouse cursor. From here, I am
> forced to reboot to get back to the console.

The 5 minute hang sounds like it could be some kind of nameserver lookup timeout.
Your system should to be able to quickly lookup its IP address from its
name and lookup its name from its IP address. You can check that with
nslookup `hostname`
and
nslookup 10.10.10.10
where the 10.10.10.10 is replaced by the 'Address' value from the first
hostname. Problems with this can be addressed by changes to
/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and getting your system listed
in all of the nameservers that it is using.

That grey background and 'X' cursor is a normal X server startup
when you run it directly with no xstart or dtlogin. You can kill the
X server on HP-UX with shift-control-break. You don't need to reboot.

> 4. cat /var/X11/Xserver/logs/Xf86.0.log
> // This file has 0 length, empty.
> // Creation data of file is today though at a time just after
> running the above tests.
>

The reboot may have started a new X server and covered up the log file
from the previous X server start up.

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:44:33 -0500, Isaac Gerg wrote:

> 3. /usr/bin/X11/X
> // appears to hang for about 5 min. Then HP logo appears. Then, I
> get a grey screen with just the "X" mouse cursor. From here, I am
> forced to reboot to get back to the console.

No need to reboot. Use CTRL+SHIFT+BREAK to terminate the X server.

Five minutes is way too long it should take maybe 7-10 seconds. Which
model system is this? How much RAM is installed? What is the load?

No load. Machine is Itanium 2 with 4GB of RAM. I'm running out of
solutions so I think I will soon attempt to reinstall the OS. Any help
is still deeply appreciated.

Isaac

Chuck Slivkoff wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:44:33 -0500, Isaac Gerg wrote:
>
> > 3. /usr/bin/X11/X
> > // appears to hang for about 5 min. Then HP logo appears.
Then, I
> > get a grey screen with just the "X" mouse cursor. From here, I am
> > forced to reboot to get back to the console.
>
> No need to reboot. Use CTRL+SHIFT+BREAK to terminate the X server.
>
> Five minutes is way too long it should take maybe 7-10 seconds. Which
> model system is this? How much RAM is installed? What is the load?