OK, I have a Solaris 9 box and when I log in, it gives me the following pop up message:

What is the DT messaging system and why is it so mandatory that it wont load the GUI without it? I have to login under failsafe mode, and the GUI doesnt load, it just gives me a simple command line window with no desktop environment.

There is no file called /etc/src.h on my machine.

The /etc/hosts file has the correct machine name and IP address in it.

There is no file called /usr/adm/inetd.sec

The /var/adm/messages file is empty

There is no file called $HOME/.dt/errorlog on my machine. IN fact there, is no $HOME/.dt directory at all.

Is the DT messaging system somethign I can install? Where do I get it?

Do you own your $HOME directory ? Can you create files and directory there ?
It may be like for me CDE isn't able to create the .dt directory, thus all the mess.

Btw, if you don't care about CDE, the best thing to do is to install another window environment from blastwave.org.
I installed icewm, it added a choice in the login menu, and from that, I had no more CDE annoyances.

This is the output from a ls -l command:

dr-xr-xr-x 20 root mri 1536 Aug 31 2003 myfolder/


Whats weird is that there are approximately 20 users on this machine and EVERYBODY else's home folder looks like this:

dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Aug 17 13:47 folderx/



Mine is the ONLY folder that has mri as the group name.

What does the first number mean? Mine is 20 but everybody else has a 1 there.

Does the fact that mine says "root mri" causing problems?

Do you have a .dt directory in your $HOME directory? Do you have permissions to write to it? Why don't you own your own home directory?

Is your home directory nfs mounted ?
What are folderx and myfolder ?

Can you run these commands ?
grep yourUserID /etc/passwd
echo $HOME
ls -ld $HOME
df -k $HOME

No I dont have a .dt directory.

I think the problem is DT messaging system cant write to my home folder. I dont know why they set it up like this its a pain in the ass. The people who set it up left the company so now I have to figure out what the hell is going on here.

Yes its NFS mounted. This must be the problem. The DT messaging system cant write to it because the permissions are set wrong.

I tried to log in as root on a workstation and change the permissions, but of course it wouldnt let me do that, because to change permissions on an NFS mounted directory you have to be root at the NFS source machine? I guess thats right. I dont have root access on the NFS source machine, nobody here does, so I'll have to crack into the machine and add me as root.

this is a pain in the ass to deal with.

It would help if you answer ALL the questions we are asking to you ...

grep yourUserID /etc/passwd:

"cant open /etc/passwd"

echo $HOME:

home directory


ls -ld $HOME:

same output as above


df -k $HOME:

remote_machine1: /home/username
25343 kbytes
11323 used
14020 avail
capacity 10%
mounted on: /home/username

I'm assuming I have to be root on remote_machine1 to change the permissions?

I would be very surprised if "ls -ld $HOME" really give the same result as "echo $HOME", I'm expecting a line with permissions, owner ... for the former.

You are not helping me helping you !

What are the content en the files (if you can read them) /etc/auto_master and /:etc/auto_home ?

What gives:

showmount -e remote_machine1