[1667] in Release_7.7_team
more on the Ultra 5 crashing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Fri Feb 12 10:40:20 1999
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Cc: f_l@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [416]
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:40:11 EST
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
So Tom Grayson reported that he found the 56-114 Ultra 5 in a crashed
state before touching anything yesterday. Gory details are in
casetracker log 133720; summary is that it was reinstalled, ccount
played with the settings and saw no problems but reverted it to
default (1280x1024x76, 8-bit) before leaving. He's asked hotline to
take a look at usage between then and thg's arrival to see if that
provides any clues before they do anything to the machine.
In any case, Brian said that a new Ultra 5 was delivered to Bill
Cattey's office, so can I assume someone's looking into whether we
have a more general problem with this hardware (or the ever-changing
m64 patches Greg mentioned)? Below are instructions from Joe Ferreira
on how to launch ArcView if a live case would help the testing.
--Abby
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You can fire up ArcView from any Athena SUN or SGI by typing
'setup 11.520' and then running 'arcview' in the window that
pops up. I believe the scripts run by this 'setup' are stored
in /mit/11.520/.attachrc
Yes, ArcView does not get along with many window managers - mwm
appears to be the only safe bet. Even then, we have students
add /mit/11.520/add_this_to_your_.Xresources_file
to their Xresources so various dialogue boxes aren't title-less
and hard to close. You can look at these class exercises:
http://gis.mit.edu/classes/11.520/labs/lab1.html
and
http://gis.mit.edu/classes/11.520/labs/lab2.html
for examples of datasets and commands to exercise ArcView
once it launches.
-- Joe Ferreira
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