[16785] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.9: mathematica (Case 137801)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sat Apr 3 00:46:10 1999
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 03 Apr 1999 00:46:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: Abby Fox's message of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:59:54 EST"
Abby replied to someone who had had trouble getting Mathematica
to work on a customized RedHat linux machine with *local* accounts.
Chris (the user) followed up to linux-help, and there was a reply;
I thought I'd send the essence of the situation here.
<ajfox@MIT.EDU> (Abby Fox) wrote:
> I believe the Mathematica Error Type 199 message indicates that the
> front end is unable to access its preferences directory
[separated for emphasis]
> (which in your case should be ~/.Mathematica.i386_linux3).
Type 199 was indeed caused by an inability to read the
mathematica preferences directory. The base of the reason,
though, was that the directory "/home/user/.Mathematica" was a
dangling symlink. It pointed to .Mathematica.@sys, and the
"@sys" does not expand for paths that are not under AFS.
(Chris got his setup to work by juggling symlinks and directories
by hand.)
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Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
