Installing JDS 3 on Solaris 10 SPARC previously running CDE

Does anyone have experience of installing JDS3 on SPARC architectures? Most of the posts seem to relate to x86. I'm having trouble installing JDS3 from the Solaris 6/06 distribution.

I have a jumpstart config which starts with a SUNWCrnet and adds the minimum to provide a CDE with XDM log in. We thought we'd try JDS3 so I've expanded the profile to include all packages in the Sol10 6/06 distribution which are marked as belonging to the GNOME2 or JDS3 categories.

This gives the option for selecting JDS from the login session menu. The desktop comes up ok but then we get error messages:

'Failed to execute child process "xscreensaver" '

Attempting to start any application from any menu results in the following message:

'Cannot launch entry

Details: Text was empty (or contained only white space)'

I can't even open a terminal.

It looks like a major piece of configuration data is missing but I'm not sure where to start looking.

Any help for an old SPARC head gratefully received.

[1058 byte] By [pchown] at [2007-11-26 12:01:24]
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I tried the same thing when i decided to use a minimum-installed firewall as a desktop.

After spending quite a lot of time on it i gave up, and decided to reinstall the box, the problem for me was that there were to many packages to install, and it seems as if some of them had to be reinstalled in a particular order.

I was also doing this installation from a CD-rom, and the packages were of course spread out over several CD.

Anyway, after spending a few hours on this, my advice is to reinstall the box (if possible) with the 'all' cluster.

.7/M.

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