[8445] in athena10
Re: Maple launch from menu fails on 64 bit machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Prengel)
Sun Sep 18 13:10:37 2011
From: Alex Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Cc: "debathena@MIT.EDU" <debathena@mit.edu>, alexp@mit.edu
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:09:26 -0400
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On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 23:20 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I forgot to bring this up at release-team today. On 64 bit machines,
> > Applications -> MIT Software -> Maple fails to launch Maple because the
> > launch command is set to "maple" which doesn't work on 64 bit machines
> > (it invokes an older, Motif-based GUI). Changing it to "maple.java"
> > should work (this invokes the newer Java-based GUI)- and that also works
> > on 32 bit machines.
>
> Hmm, do we have 32-bit machines to test things like this on?
> The deployed clusters are all 64-bit, of course ... how about the test
> cluster(s)? It looks like opus in the SIPB office is 32-bit, so that
> should be enough for Geoff or me to test such a change pre-commit, I
> guess.
>
> -Ben
I have one 32 bit machine (pavane.mit.edu) on the 6th floor of E19 in
the test cluster if that doesn't work out.
A.
