SUMMARY: ToolTalk

From: Mohamed K. Ahmed <mkahmed_at_vsc.teksystems.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:06:47 -0400

Well,
Thanks to all who replied.
I just killed the decterm (dtwm) process that was running on the console
and it logged me off the console, then I logged in again without any
problems.
Though I didn't try any of the suggested remedies, I will sure try them
when it happens again, or I will force the problem to happen then try
to solve it on a test machine.
Thanx ALL
Here are some of the interesting replies I got

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>From Stan Horwitz:
I do not know if this is related to your problem, but have you seen the
recent CERT advisory about a buffer overflow vulnerability with CDE's
ToolTalk? If not, you certainly should. The advisory is available at
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-27.html
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>From True64 User:
I kept getting this message about ttdb.serverd cannot
connect, tooltalk may not be running. So, i tested it
by disabling ttdb in /etc/inetd.conf
>From there I encountered the symptoms u have, so I
re-enabled ttdb (tool talk db server).
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>From Ayman Rayyan:
Try to remove the ( .TTauthoriuty ) file from root home directory.




ORIGINAL QUESTION:
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Hi all,
I had a strange message on my ES40 True64 Unix V 4.0G Console this
morning. When I try to click on any icon on the CDE application
manager bar, it comes with an Application Manager Error: "The
request to service this action has failed. A ToolTalk connection
could not be established"

Have anyone saw this?, any way to recover?
Received on Mon Oct 22 2001 - 13:07:33 NZDT

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