Intermittent JDS3 login problem on Solaris 10 - Black Screen & tiny toolbar
Hello?br>
I've got the Jan '06 release of Solaris 10 for sparc installed on a SunFire V440.
I've got the initial customer release (Sept '05?) of Solaris 10 installed on three other SunFire V440s. These were pre-installed by Sun when we ordered the machines.
Each of these machines has an XVR-1200 graphics card.
On all four of these machines, we have intermittent problems logging into JDS3 at the console. The symptoms include a completely black background with an aborted little toolbar about an inch long in the upper-left corner of the screen with nothing on it. There are a few icons on the desktop as well. We have to kill the login, either remotely or by right-clicking to add a logout icon to that little toolbar. The next time we log in, it might work just fine or repeat the same problem. Estimates of how frequently this problem occurs range from 30-50% of the logins.
Most of us have our home directories on an NFS mount. However, I've seen the same problem when logging in as root, which has its home directory in the root of the local drive.
I have downloaded lots of gnome and some dtlogin patches from sunsolve.sun.com and applied them. The frequency of bad logins seems to have dropped after these patches, but not gone to zero by any means.
Does anybody have any idea what the cause of this problem might be and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance!!
