[736] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes, 9/12?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Fri Sep 27 16:50:34 1996
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:50:18 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
attending: kevin, bruce, carla, gary, greg, tom, jonathon, mark, dot,
miki, mike, bill
1. Solaris 2.4 missing kernels - although we have some new ideas of
things to check if we get another case of this, we haven't had any
reports of missing kernels...
2. SGI "streaky icons" or "graphics not working"
hinv
ls -l /var/arch/lib
athena% ls -l /var/arch/lib
total 5
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root sys 30 Apr 1 12:46 libGL.so -> /usr/gfx/arch/IP12GR2/libGL.so
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root sys 34 Apr 1 12:46 libGLcore.so -> /usr/gfx/arch/IP12GR2/libGLcore.so
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root sys 30 Apr 1 12:46 libdg.so -> /usr/gfx/arch/IP12GR2/libgd.so
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root sys 30 Apr 1 12:46 libgl.so -> /usr/gfx/arch/IP12GR2/libgl.so
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root sys 29 Apr 1 12:46 libgl_s -> /usr/gfx/arch/IP12GR2/libgl_s*
if machine is xl, should be IP22NG1
r5000 xl - IP22XGE
GR3 XZ - IP12GR2
if they are pointing to the wrong one:
attach vrt
/mit/vrt/fixlibs.sh
3. mediad problem traced to umount (at some point, vrt found that
a new binary fixed this problem. i.e., we can make the problems with
floppies and CDROM go away...)
4. we discussed help (olh) a bit. basic drawback of current system is
that it pops up another netscape/mosaic instead of using existing one.
so we thought:
1. bruce could pick up dotshack (to use running netscape if available)
2. tell everyone how to use it
3. make dash use dotshack (f_l)
4. tell everyone about it
5. deploy new dash
6. convert olh to use dotshack
(note: on sgi/sun, we recommend netscape; dec will still use
mosaic)
5. thinking about releases - we will probably have a patch release for
the SGI and SUN soon. Probably no IAP release, though. and by next summer,
8.1, with either sol 2.4 or 2.5 and irix 5.3 or 6.2...
