Not sure if anyone else has seen this sort of behavior or even if it happens
for anyone else at all.
I am simply looking at two machines here, both Sparc.
System 1 : hostname mars
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_38 October 2007
$ cat /etc/release
Solaris Nevada snv_38 SPARC
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 17 April 2006
System 2 : hostname pluto
pluto console login: dclarke
Password:
Last login: Mon Jul 24 14:38:37 from mars:0
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic Patch February 2004
$ cat /etc/release
Solaris 8 2/04 s28s_hw4wos_05a SPARC
Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Assembled 08 January 2004
$ uname -a
SunOS pluto 5.8 Generic_117350-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
$
I have a monitor and keyboard on mars but pluto is headless.
I plunk myself in front of mars and I see a snazzy looking blue screen with
the Solaris logo there in the central login window. Its not really a window
it just looks to be highlighted in a smooth way at the top and bottom.
Anyways .. its not the old CDE/dtlogin thing.
It says "Welcome to mars" and a Username field and three buttons that say
Session, Language and Options from left to right.
I click on Options button and get a little window pop up that says :
Choose an Action
o Suspend the computer
o Run XDMCP choose
with a Cancel and OK button.
I have no idea what the XDMCP option really entails but I know that I am
looking for a remote server and not this .. so I go with that.
boom ... the whole window goes white .. and then .. blue with a "X11 6.6.3"
in the middle. This is rapidly replaced with a greyish-blue screen and an
option dialog box that says "Choose a host to connect to:" and it lists :
mars-dev 192.168.35.243
mars 192.168.35.123
pluto 192.168.35.100
and they all have a GNOMEish looking foot logo thingie to the left of them
even though pluto is stock Solaris 8. Go figure.
Well ... I want pluto so I double click on that and whammo ! white screen
again followed by a quick blue flash and then the old familiar looking
dtlogin screen of a Solaris 8 system.
"cool" thinks I
so I try to login .... and when I hit the enter key after my password ..
whap !
white screen .. followed by ... blue screen with X11 6.6.3 in the middle
and then .. back to the new login screen.
?
any clues ?
Dennis
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