JDS and Gnome start, but all applications become fixed in upper left hand

Question

Problem:
Java Desktop and Gnome start, but all applications are fixed in the upper left hand corner and become stacked on top of each other.
Multi-panel JDS does not start up, and I am forced into one window, which makes the above problem critical.
Conditions: New installation (not an upgrade) I experienced this problem. Attempted to connect from SGD. Using the following command
/usr/dt/config/Xsession.jds
Environment Variable: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/dt/lib
ERROR MESSAGE:
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.
The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
The last error message was:
Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred
GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
SOLARIS Version:
SunOS ITK-EDS1-IS 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
Window Manager:
Sun Java Desktop System, Release 3
Build Date: 12/15/04
After Problem Encountered I did the following:
Insured all X, DT, and OPENWIN bins were in my path.
Cleaned out the /var/tmp directory
Cleared out the user directory except for the .dtprofile with the Sessionlog commented out, and the .profile.
Rebooted the united and tried again.
All .dt and JDS .directories are rebuilt, and the welcome to JDS comes up.
The following is from the log files located in the .dt directory.
Results of .dt/startlog (Note: only anomaly reported for brevity)
--- starting /usr/dt/bin/dsdm &
dsdm: another DSDM is already running
Results of .dt/sessionlogs
GNOME Desktop Environment
using xinitrc file: /usr/dt/config/Xinitrc.jds
Cleaned 0 files 0 still live
Starting GNOME
X_mkdir: Not owner
(Message REPEATS)
SESSION_MANAGER=local/ITK-EDS1-IS:/tmp/.ICE-unix/12329,inet6/ITK-EDS1-IS:34993,inet/ITK-EDS1-IS:34994
Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension.
Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display "10.70.10.21:11.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
(Message REPEATS)
(nautilus:12375): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-volume.c: line 261: assertion `home_volume != NULL' failed
(Message REPEATS 13 more times)
Anyone have any idea of what this problem could be,

Answer 1

Your main problem is that the JDS window manager (metacity) isn't starting up, because it thinks there is already another window manager running on that display:
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Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display "10.70.10.21:11.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
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I obviously don't know if there really is or not (I'm guessing not, if all the windows are stuck in the top left of the screen), but running "metacity --replace &" in a terminal should force it to start up.
The gnome-settings-daemon warning is annoying, but non-fatal. It will usually just cause some icons and fonts to look incorrect. You can try running "/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon" again manually in a terminal, which will sometimes clear it up straight away. If not, I see you attempted to clean up some things in the home directory manually, but running "/usr/bin/gnome-cleanup" in a terminal (while not logged into JDS) might be a better thing to try.