[1309] in Athena Bugs
zwgc on RT bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul F. Krause)
Fri Nov 4 17:27:26 1988
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 17:27:54 EST
From: pfkrause@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Paul F. Krause)
To: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of Fri, 4 Nov 88 05:14:30 EST <8811041014.AA28266@PROMETHEUS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: pfkrause@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 05:14:30 EST
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@athena.mit.edu>
I find the requirement for MANPATH hard to believe, especially in
light of the fact that I (and most users) do not have it set, and have
noticed no problems. Can you provide supporting evidence?
The "bad address setting location" message is due to a minor kernel
bug which will be fixed when the 6.0R release hits the field, which
should be fairly soon.
I based my bug report on the following:
/usr/athena/.login set MANPATH immediatdly before the call to
zwgc. If this file is sourced before MANPATH is rests by the users
.login, as is the default for most users, the MANPATH variable is set
correctly and no error occours. This behavior is consistant even i
fthe sys-login file is reduced down to two lines: the MANPATH set and
the call to zwgc. However, removing the MANPATH setting causes the
problems I reported, but ONLY ON THE RT.
Why do you think that the sys-login sets MANPATH at all?
Looks like an undocumented patch somewhere along the line. I don't
know whether the new release will fix this bug or not. I will try
again sometime this weekend and let you know the result.
-paul
pfkrause@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
