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Re: Problems with ubuntu 8.04 (HELP!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Feb 9 13:27:17 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:26:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4990710B.4010403@mit.edu>
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Most of the latter commands I typed while trying to debug; this is
probably one of pyhesiodfs's usual failure modes, but I don't know what
they are.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Ned Carpenter wrote:
> Dear deb,
>
> I am having problems trying to initialise / 'get to work' debathena on my
> unbuntu 8.04 machine. He are some of the error messages I have received:
>
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ add matlab
> Cannot attach locker on /mit:
> directory /mit is group/other writable.
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ ls -ld /mit
> drwxrwx--- 2 root pyhesiodfs 4096 2009-02-07 12:33 /mit
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ ls /mit
> ls: cannot open directory /mit: Permission denied
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ mount
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
> varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/debathena-pyhesiodfs restart
> * Restarting Debathena /mit automounter debathena-pyhesiodfs [ OK
> ]
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ mount
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
> varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ ls /mnt
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ ls /mit
> ls: cannot open directory /mit: Permission denied
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ add matlab
> Cannot attach locker on /mit:
> directory /mit is group/other writable.
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/debathena-pyhesiodfs restart
> * Restarting Debathena /mit automounter debathena-pyhesiodfs [ OK
> ]
> ned@ned-eeepc:~$
>
>
> It may well be that I have incorrectly installed debathena. If you think you
> could help me with this or with reinstalling the program, I would be very
> grateful if you could find a spare moment to help me in person.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ned.
>
> (Edward Carpenter)
>
