hi,

No i am not able to start a safe session
it's not a new installation
and the graphical environnement was working perfectly
i have the Solaris 9 operating environment that includes Sun java enterprise system

the machine is a Sun sunfire v440 server (sparc platform)

and the error i keep getting is a SYSERR(root) from sendmail ( which i have installed long ago)

.i used to have that missing map file alias0 dbm map
i corrected it
by running newaliases.
but now i keep getting the same SYSERR(root) error messages from sendmail

Can you elaborate on that ?
When and how does the failsafe session fails ?
Did you change/install/patch configure something before the failure ?
That was worth mentioning. Most of the postings in that forum are about x86 H/W.
You didn't answered about what graphic card is used, do you know what it is ?
In graphic mode, are you connecting locally or remotely ?
You shouldn't focus on this senmail error. There is absolutely no relationship between sendmail and the X server.

Can you post the output of these commands ?

hi,

quote:
When and how does the failsafe session fails ?
* when i try to login on failsafe session, it does the same thing...Start to log and log me out suddenly.

quote:
Did you change/install/patch configure something before the failure ?
* no nothing was install besides apache software ( but a while ago) ...it was wroking perfectly until one morning i found the login screen smaller then usual, not able to c the help button right and couldn't login as root.

quote:
You didn't answered about what graphic card is used, do you know what it is ?
In graphic mode, are you connecting locally or remotely ?
* to be honest i really do not know how to verify the graphic card with commands. i do know what it is but i can't tell you exacly what type of graphic card i do have.
And in graphic mode, i connect locally all the time.

quote:
Can you post the output of these commands ?

Code:
ls -ltr /var/log | tail
ls -ltr /.dt
tail -50 /var/dt/Xerrors

* for ls - ltr /var/log | tail
i get the list of syslog i have , from syslog to syslog.9
they are all empty (0)

but the output of the command " tail -50 /var/dt/Xerrors" cut my attention
this is what i found:

cat: write error: broken pipe
cat: cannot open /var/dt/dtlogin-Uda......

error(pid 358): can not execute /usr/dt/config/xsetup
warning: cannot convert string "-*-swiss 742-bold-r-normal-*-140-*-p-100-* "to type FontStruct
warning: cannot convert string "-*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-128-72-* " to type FontStruct

error(pid 360) : can not execute /urs/dt/config/Xstartup
cat: write error: Broken pipe
cat: write error: Broken pipe

hope this will help

Okay, something definitely wrong here.
What return these commands ?

How r u?

ok i got the output

quote:
What return these commands ?

Code:
egrep "Xstartup|Xsetup " /var/sadm/install/contents
ls -l /usr/dt/config/Xsetup /usr/dt/config/Xstartup
sum /usr/dt/config/Xsetup /usr/dt/config/Xstartup


*egrep "Xstartup|Xsetup " /var/sadm/install/contents
/usr/dt/config/Xsetup f none 0555 root bin 5430 40659 1066917109 SUNWdtdte
/usr/dt/config/Xstartup f none 0555 root bin 1955 16281 1016068974 SUNWdtdte
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 f none 0755 root bin 150 11841 1018072904 SUNWxwopt

*ls -l /usr/dt/config/Xsetup /usr/dt/config/Xstartup
-r-xr-xr-x 1root bin 5430 oct 23 2003 /usr/dt/config/Xsetup
-r-xr-xr-x 1root bin 1955 Mar 13 2002 /usr/dt/config/Xstartup

*sum /usr/dt/config/Xsetup /usr/dt/config/Xstartup
40659 11 /usr/dt/config/Xsetup
16281 4 /usr/dt/config/Xstartup

Have you checked for any file-system full, especially /var ?

quote:
Have you checked for any file-system full, especially /var ?

sorry but where exacly in /var do i check for the file system full?

Run
and look for 100% in the capacity column.

my var
is at 22% only
and the highest is 28%

i do not have a 100% for any

Okay, what says "df -kh /tmp" ?

i have 1% for /tmp

i just empty my /tmp and /var/tmp

I was (and I'm still) asking for the output of "df -kh /tmp" command. Your machine may be out of virtual memory and that's a way to figure it out.

Removing all the files from the /var/tmp directory can be a bad idea.

hi,
i did send you the output of df -kh /tmp

u quote:
Okay, what says "df -kh /tmp" ?

answer:
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
swap 13G ok 13G 0% /tmp

well guys
i think i waste too much of ur time
everything i tried doesn't work.
thnks for helping anyway