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sgi 8.0F: indy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rkoehl@MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 3 18:02:59 1996

From: rkoehl@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 18:02:47 EDT

System name:		m66-080-17
Type and version:	IP22 8.0F
Display type:		GR3-XZ

What were you trying to do?
Log in.

What's wrong:
The following error messages occur:

17:59 Athena Workstation (SGI) Version 8.0F Mon Aug 12 15:32:56 EDT 1996
17:59 Unable to find current working directory:
17:59 
17:59 Try an absolute pathname.
17:59 UX:mkdir: ERROR: Cannot create directory ".desktop_indy/athenahosts": Permission denied
17:59 UX:ln: ERROR: .desktop-m66-080-17
17:59 UX:ln: REASON: Permission denied
17:59 Warning: could not create desktop; things may break
17:59 tcsh: getwd: can't stat .
17:59 tcsh: Trying to start from "/mit/rkoehl"
17:59 tcsh: Trying to start from "/"
17:59 Setting up environment...
17:59 .desktop-m66-080-17: Permission denied
17:59 UX:mkdir: ERROR: Cannot create directory "//.desktop-m66-080-17/configchecks": No such file or directory
17:59 UX:sh (Xsession.dt): ERROR: //.desktop-m66-080-17/configchecks/checkversion: Cannot create
17:59 Starting the Athena Dashboard...
17:59 Creating logout button...

and many things are broken.

What should have happened:
I should have been able to log in without error messages.  No
such messages occur when logging in to Suns or ringworld.

Please describe any relevant documentation references:


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