Hi,

We have a Sun Solaris microsystem, running CDE 1.4, that controls our
Varian Unity/Inova 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. Lately, the Lock Display
feature has been creating woe for me. It no longer recognizes my
password. The only way out of the bind is for me to log in remotely
and issue the command;
kill -9 PID
where PID is the process ID number of /usr/dt/bin/dtsession.

Earlier today, I used my Desktop Controls to turn off Lock Display.
But after being away for 1.5 hours, I came back to find the Display
Locked. Arrgh.

Now when I try to access the Desktop Controls, the system tells me the
folder specification to Desktop Controls does not exist. Yikes.

Ideas? Comments?

dgn

dnaugler@sfu.ca (David Naugler) wrote in message news:<c6bcfffa.0310141546.360c1c5c@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> 
> We have a Sun Solaris microsystem, running CDE 1.4, that controls our
> Varian Unity/Inova 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. Lately, the Lock Display
> feature has been creating woe for me. It no longer recognizes my
> password. The only way out of the bind is for me to log in remotely
> and issue the command;
> kill -9 PID
> where PID is the process ID number of /usr/dt/bin/dtsession.
> 
> Earlier today, I used my Desktop Controls to turn off Lock Display.
> But after being away for 1.5 hours, I came back to find the Display
> Locked. Arrgh.
> 
> Now when I try to access the Desktop Controls, the system tells me the
> folder specification to Desktop Controls does not exist. Yikes.
> 
> Ideas? Comments?

I don't know exactly what is causing it, but if you log in, mv the
directory $HOME/.dt to $HOME/.dt.old or somthing similar, then log in
again. That will create a new set of CDE files, which hopefully won't
have the problem. It will of course loose any configuration of CDE
that you did.

I've had to use this before when things got screwed up. Perhaps you
will find somene who really knows where to look, but simply renaming
the files so they wont be used will almost certainly cure the problem.

Dr. David Kirkby,
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