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Re: 38-370
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Oct 26 00:20:05 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:19:56 -0400
Cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>,
"release-team@MIT.EDU" <release-team@MIT.EDU>
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To: "Jessica B. Hamrick" <jhamrick@MIT.EDU>
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Ah, interesting. I wonder if this affects people who haven't run openoffice since Athena 9.3 (which would have used rhel3)? Certainly if it affected all legacy ooffice users I'd have expected to hear about it before now.
Thanks!
-Jon
On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Jessica B. Hamrick wrote:
> Excerpts from Geoffrey Thomas's message of Mon Oct 25 18:12:52 -0400 2010:
>> Just tested ooffice from the command line on every machine that wasn't in
>> use. One of them (-11) is barely on the network; athinfo times out and the
>> password prompt takes a minute or two. The rest all work just fine.
>
> The user (I think it's probably the same one) came by the SIPB office
> and was able to reproduce it here. mikemp helped debug it --
> apparently she had old configuration files (a tangled mess of symlinks
> to a RHEL 3 configuration directory). He backed up the config files
> and then removed them for her, and it worked just fine. So it sounds
> like a legacy open office problem, rather than a particular machine
> problem.
>
> Jess
> --
> Jessica B. Hamrick
> Course 6-3: Computer Science
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> http://jhamrick.mit.edu/
