DT messaging system could not be started

Question

Hi All,
The system (Solaris 9 CDE) is attempting to access the internet, as it commonly does, but is unable to today. The ethernet port is active, as it was checked with a laptop. Upon rebooting the system, the following message appears after login:
Action Required
The DT messaging system could not be started.
To correct the problem:
1. Choose [OK] to return to the login screen.
2. Select the Failsafe Session.
3. Check to see that the hostname is correct in these locations:
/etc/src.sh
/etc/hosts
/usr/adm/inetd.sec
4. Check to see any majic cookie related error messages in these locations:
/var/adm/messages
$HOME/.dt/errorlog
Now, "src.sh" and "inetd.sec" do not exist under the above pathnames. Nothing appears to be wrong in the "hosts" file. The "errorlog" says the following:
dtsession: Unable to start message server - exiting.
The messages file has some peculiar statements:
rogers600 bge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: bge0: link down (initialised)
I am very very new to UNIX and Sun, and so any help anyone could provide would be truly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ashish

Answer 1

Well, it seems as if there are many ways to skin a cat. After a great deal of trial & error we found:
If the DNS entries in the zone file are commented out, even with the DNS configured in resolv.conf, e.g.
domain xx.xxx.com
nameserver feef:0:9::53
and the hosts file is configured properly
and
hosts: files dns is correct
THEN
the DT login succeeds and DNS look on all other host suceeds--- IF HOWEVER -- the entry in the zone file is reactivated, upon reboot the DT messageing error again appears.
Finally, we simply copied the hosts file entry in to ipnodes in /etc/inet and that was it!!!!
e.g,
::1 localhost
feef:0:9::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx myname loghost
In case you are wondering we are running an all IPv6 setup