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Re: libgpm missing for links

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Krsulich)
Mon Mar 16 23:50:35 2009

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:49:35 -0400
From: Kevin Krsulich <kdk323@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linerva@MIT.EDU
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Ohh, it looks like accounts created before 9/04 didn't come with the bash
dotfiles as standard so you'd need to go and grab them yourself which I
obviously didn't.

Ref: https://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3907089

Thanks again for the help,

Kevin

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:19:44PM -0400, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hmm...you shouldn't actually have to define any of those - they should
> all be handled by the standard dotfiles.
> 
> But I guess as long as you got it figured out :)
> 
> - Evan
> 
> Kevin Krsulich wrote:
> > Ahh, found it.
> >
> > /bin/athena/attach -Padd sipb 1>/dev/null
> > export PATH=/mit/sipb/bin/:$PATH
> > alias add="/bin/athena/attach -Padd $add_flags"
> > alias logout="/bin/athena/tcsh -c logout"
> >
> > Whoops. 
> >
> > So if interested, the story is that a while ago, I switched my athena shell
> > to bash and realized that my add commands were still calling setenv, instead 
> > of export to add paths of the added lockers. So rather than trying to fix it, 
> > I just tacked this on since sipb was the only locker I used frequently enough 
> > to make /mit/<locker>/bin/<prog> arduous.
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:23:46PM -0400, Evan Broder wrote:
> >   
> >> Are you manipulating your path in your dotfiles anywhere?
> >>
> >> - Evan
> >>
> >> Kevin Krsulich wrote:
> >>     
> >>> You're exactly right. /usr/bin/links works just fine but /usr/bin ends
> >>> up behind /mit/sipb in my path for some interesting reason (add is
> >>> aliased to '/bin/athena/attach -Padd ', no -f).
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Evan Broder wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Hi Kevin -
> >>>>     Which links command are you using? (run `which links`)
> >>>>
> >>>> You mention the sipb locker, but there is a links installed locally on
> >>>> linerva (/usr/bin/links), so you should be getting that one, unless
> >>>> you're using `add -f`.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'll contact the maintainers of the sipb locker and ask them to rebuild
> >>>> links for new library version or remove the symlink for newer systems.
> >>>>
> >>>> - Evan
> >>>>
> >>>> Kevin Krsulich wrote:
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Hey all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Just a heads up that links seems to be broken for me on linerva (but not on
> >>>>> Athena 9 dialups). 
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $ links
> >>>>> links: error while loading shared libraries: libgpm.so.1: cannot open
> >>>>> shared object file: No such file or directory
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It looks in /usr/lib/ and there's a libgpm.so.2 there. Maybe this is an
> >>>>> issue for whoever owns the sipb locker.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>   
> >>>       

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