user accounts go bad on Sun

From: William C. Stevens <wstevens_at_siu.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:25:14 -0600

Dear group:

My new Merc 400 came with a Blade 1500 on which is loaded Solaris 9
and VNMRJ 1.1D.

I have found that one by one, for reasons I cannot correlate, user
accounts become impossible to log into. If I use /vnmr/bin/makeuser
as root to update the user, this does not work. Upon supplying
password, the screen goes dark and a new login screen pops up. Using
the vnmrj adm to update the user is no help either. I have to
completely wipe out the user's directory and recreate it with
makeuser. Here is the content of the user's .dt/startlog

--- Xsession started by dtlogin
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsession_res -load -system
--- sourcing /export/home/guifeng/.dtprofile...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0010.dtpaths...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0015.sun.env...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0020.dtims...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0030.dttmpdir...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/0040.xmbind...
--- sourcing /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1000.solregis...
--- starting /bin/true
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtsearchpath
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dtappgather &
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dsdm &
--- session log file is /dev/null
--- DTSOURCEPROFILE is 'true' (see /export/home/guifeng/.dtprofile)
--- execing /usr/dt/config/Xsession2.Sun-gnome-2.0-s9u4s-2_0_2-08
with a /bin/cs
h login shell ...
--- starting desktop on /dev/pts/2
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.9 Generic May 2002
goober being added to access control list
/usr/dt/bin/Xsession[749]: 16797 Hangup
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now, I'm guessing I have one corrupt file, maybe in .dt or maybe .cshrc

Any ideas? This has happened to at least six users over the last few months.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Bill

William C. Stevens, Ph.D. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
Director Southern Illinois University
                                 Carbondale, IL 62901-4405
618-453-6498 voice
618-453-6408 fax wstevens_at_siu.edu
                                 http://opie.nmr.siu.edu
Received on Tue Nov 22 2005 - 13:12:51 MST

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