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Re: Case 257244: This case has recently been updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin)
Thu Feb 7 14:08:58 2002
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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:04:47 -0500
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From: Colin <cwu@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
I solved it, it was just a matter of updating the hesiod info for the machine.
Thanks,
Colin
>Case 257244 has recently been updated and stands as follows.
>Please retain the case number in the subject line for future replies
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>(Comment [02/07/2002 12:23:23 by larugsi])
>
>Ops, can you shed any light on this particular issue.
> Thanks,
> --Lou
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>Case History
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>Email Received [02/07/2002 01:36:51 by daemon]
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>Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 01:36:47 -0500
>To: hotline@MIT.EDU
>From: Colin <cwu@MIT.EDU>
>Cc:
>Subject: failed athena activation
>
>
>Hi,
>I recently installed Athena on a Sparc 5. Even though Sparc 5's
>are not supported, I don't believe that is the problem.....
>Every time I try to log in using X, I get the message system failed to
>activate properly. I can only log in using the terminal, and when I try
>to log in as anything but root, I get "System-wide initialization
>files not found"
>"C Shell initialization has not been performed"
>"unknown mode: dec"
>
>and a ">" instead of the usual "athena%"
>
>the machine is cwu.mit.edu
>
>this hostname used to be used for an athena linux machine. does that
>affect things?
>I changed my private workstation registration information, but it may
>not have taken
>effect.
>
>Please help me solve this.
>Thanks,
>Colin
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