asked on

AIX - Can't Run Anything in CDE Session

There was a power failure on my IBM workstation running AIX. After reboot everything seems normal until I login to the CDE interface. Nothing on the panel or the context menus work. I get an error along these lines for anything including trying to open a terminal;

Action: ExitSession [Error]
Action "ExitSession"" was not found.

I can't open terminals, logout or do anything. This is happening for all users including root.

If anyone can help I'd REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

wanabi

ASKER

I should add that I can login in a failsafe mode and root has a terminal open by default in CDE so I can get in and look around/mod items.

sjm_ee

Check /etc/hosts to see if both "127.0.0.1 loopback localhost" and "<workstation IP address> <workstation IP name>" are there correctly.

sjm_ee

You will need to press the button at the CDE username prompt to login to the console in text mode.

wanabi

ASKER

Yes, they are in there correctly.

When I started the VI session it warned me of very low disk space. Could this have an impact? Which paths from / should I be interested in? I didn't commission this machine and /home /var /usr /tmp /opt etc are all on their own partitions. Particularly /var reports as near 100% full.

wanabi

ASKER

If there's any log files that I can look at I'd be happy to share. I just need to know where to find the stupid things.

I'm not a huge AIX person at all. My background is in Linux.

wanabi

ASKER

Found the log for dt and found an error in it stating that it couldn't create the actions when starting because it's tmp folder is under /var which is full. Looks like the culprit. Points to the person that can clue me in on what's safe to delete under /var. The dt/tmp doesn't have anything in it anymore so that doesn't count.

ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION

tfewster

membership

Create a free account to see this answer

Signing up is free and takes 30 seconds. No credit card required.

See answer