[1095] in athena10
Re: Opus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Feb 9 15:47:08 2009
Cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Jessica B Hamrick <jhamrick@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0902091527410.24732@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:46:13 -0500
Yes, you won't be able to read the errors from the dialog box because
it doesn't have AFS tokens and can't access your homedir at that
point. You should, however, be able to read ~/.xsession-errors from
any other AFS client (such as logging into an Athena 9 machine)
-Jon
On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Jessica B Hamrick wrote:
> It seems to have trouble with reporting the errors... "/mit/
> jhamrick/.xsession-errors could not be opened".
>
> Restarting does, in fact, appear to solve the problem (but then it
> reappears once you log out).
>
> --Jess
>
> -------------------
> Jessica B. Hamrick
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Course 6-2: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
> jhamrick@mit.edu
> (434) 989-4300
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I was aware of this and didn't deal before leaving the SIPB
>> office in a hurry. I assume this is the issue jdreed reported
>> earlier with "Log Out" leaving the machine broken (ATN-27, for
>> those of you with Jira access). Rebooting should fix it, but I'd
>> like to see .xsession-errors to make sure it's the same thing.
>>
>> --
>> Geoffrey Thomas
>> geofft@mit.edu
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Jessica B Hamrick wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Logging into opus does not appear to work - it throws the standard
>>> xsession error ("your session lasted less than 10 seconds...").
>>> Logging in as root also does not seem to work... perhaps I tried
>>> using the wrong password? fawkes tried as well, so I'm pretty sure
>>> I wasn't just failing at typing.
>>> --Jess
>>> -------------------
>>> Jessica B. Hamrick
>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>> Course 6-2: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
>>> jhamrick@mit.edu
>>> (434) 989-4300
>>
