Weird Solaris problem

[epseps]

I have Solaris 8 on an ultra 5 at work. My home directory is automounted from a server running 2.6. All other boxes run Solaris 7. Two days ago something happend where I cannot log into my box as myself without getting a retarded version of my CDE desk top. I'm missing the controll panel and I can't click on windows. I can log onto any other box with no problem, I cannot log on from a different box to my solaris 8 box as myself but my co workers can log onto it just fine. Something is corrupted in my home directory. Sun tech support gave me advice on how to fix it but nothing worked. Any clues? (we have ruled out an NIS problem)

Also I know very little about socket programing and Perl. One of my co -workers was working on a program at the time when this first occured. Is there a chance that perl or code compiled on Solaris 7 screwed up my connecting to Solaris 8?

[rppp01]

check to see that you are still in the /etc/passwd file. But it sounds like you are. Log in as root on that box (if you can) and go look at your home directory. Look for your .profile and .xdefaults and so on. They may be missing. Programmers love tweaking with that .profile, and I have seen a fair share practically destroy that file. If it is gone, you can simply copy the local_profile file from /etc/skel to your home dir (IIRC).

[epseps]

Thanks.

I am in /etc/passwd. What I'll do on Monday is restore the .profile and .Xdefaults from a day when I had no problems. Sun Tech support recommended patches (which is their often effective 'hail Mary' play). It is more time consuming than it should be.