Other CDE restarts after Login

DDenny · Feb 23, 2020

I installed CDE 2.3.1 on 64-bit FreeBSD 12.1 on my laptop. The installation worked well.
After I start CDE and type my name and password correctly, the screen becomes black and it returns to the login screen and same thing happens again. What should I do?

eternal_noob · Feb 23, 2020

Hi,

Never used CDE but I'd check the logs, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the other usual suspects.

DDenny · Feb 25, 2020

Thats a good Idea, but i cant return to the commandprompt/unixshell to type commands

eternal_noob · Feb 26, 2020

DDenny said:
Thats a good Idea, but i cant return to the commandprompt/unixshell to type commands

What's wrong with CTRL+ALT+F2?

PS: To go back to X, use ALT+F9

DDenny · Mar 1, 2020

when i use the combinations, nothing is happening (Ctrl, Alt, F2)
Im stuck in the login screen to type my username and password, after i did it correctly, it loads cde again and i must type my pw and username again and again.

eternal_noob · Mar 3, 2020

DDenny said:
when i use the combinations, nothing is happening

Sorry, i just can't believe this. Switching to virtual consoles is definitely possible. See https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/consoles.html

If this really doesn't work for whatever reasons, try to boot into single user mode (see same link above).

Steyla · Mar 3, 2020

Since you are on a laptop I assume that you have to press some FN (Function) key to activate the F1-10 keys. Perhaps something like FN-CTRL-ALT-F2 ?

Steyla · Mar 3, 2020

Regarding dtlogin: When you have access to a shell, either through single user mode or key combination, check out if you have ksh93 (/usr/local/bin/ksh93) installed. If not install it.

Also, check out if inetd and rpcbind is running and that you have the following entries in /etc/inetd.conf

Code:

dtspc   stream  tcp4    nowait  root    /usr/local/dt/bin/dtspcd /usr/local/dt/bin/dtspcd
cmsd/2-5    dgram rpc/udp4 wait root /usr/local/dt/bin/rpc.cmsd rpc.cmsd

If they are not running add the following to /etc/rc.conf

Code:

inetd_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"

Then start the daemons.

Code:

# service inetd start
# service rpcbind start

After that, test if everything is working.

Code:

# /usr/local/dt/bin/dtlogin -nodaemon

eternal_noob · Mar 3, 2020

Steyla said:
Since you are on a laptop I assume that you have to press some FN (Function) key to activate the F1-10 keys.

Ooops. I think i skipped the laptop part. Thanks for pointing this out!

Truupe · Mar 4, 2020

Slightly off-topic, but correct if I'm wrong, but isn't CDE still "unsafe" to use?

eternal_noob · Mar 4, 2020

Truupe said:
Slightly off-topic, but correct if I'm wrong, but isn't CDE still "unsafe" to use?

I'd say yes. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-75/CDE.html

Steyla · Mar 4, 2020

There are so many different CDE versions for different OS's out there that it is difficult to say. The project is still maintained and patches are released. Check out the mailing list on source forge for more.

https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/