problem with dtpad in Solaris 8

2007-12-25 11:49:00

Thanks to the following for the answer.

Loper Robert-RLOPER1 <Robert.Loper@motorola.com>

Ericka Fowler <Ericka.Fowler@central.sun.com>

Using dtpad -standAlone did the trick.

Rick

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dtpad uses the ToolTalk interfaces a lot to allow editing among multiple CDE

apps. Try running "dtpad -standAlone <filename>" to turn off this

"feature".

Hope this helps...

 - Robert Loper

From: Ericka Fowler <Ericka.Fowler@central.sun.com>

Hi Rick,

are you su'ing or rlogging into root?

I've seen this problem before in that scenario:

Here's what I found as a workaround:

Solaris8 has enhanced restrictions for ttsession, as a result after an su or

rlogin to another user and then bringing up dtpad OR DTMAIL, you must do

either:

1) ttsession -c ; dtpad

OR

2) dtpad -standAlone

Original message:

Hi Managers,

I'm having a problem running the dtpad editor as root on a Solaris 8

machine. As

a non-root user I can run the program OK but I get this error as root:

ttdt_open failed: TT_ERR_PROCID The process id passed is not valid.

Other desktop apps (dtcalc, dtterm, etc.) run OK when I run them as root.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rick

rnf@tbird.com

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