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Old 10-06-2005
The DT messaging system could not be started
Hello All,

I am getting " The DT messaging system could not be started" message when wants to login as root on a box running on tru64 5.1A.

/etc/hosts is ok.

when i see in .dt/errorlog it shows message server could not be started.

Thanks for help.

Awadhesh
# 2  
Old 12-14-2008
Bug The DT messaging system could not be started on tru64 unix 5.1a
I do get the same error message running on a compaq alpha box, ES45. This also result on the system losing the network settings when rebooted.
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Old 12-17-2008
This message is to do with CDE and it's underlying messaging system i.e ToolTalk. If you are unfamilar with ToolTalk, conceptually it is similar to DBUS on Fedora/Redhat/CentOS. It was developed by Sun.

Generally caused by CDE not being able to write files in a user's home directory. Often caused when a user's directory is NFS mounted. Lots of information and good advise available if you search the Web.
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