[17695] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.26: mathematica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu Mar 23 16:22:55 2000
Message-Id: <200003232122.QAA24209@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: blout@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [17690]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:22:50 -0500
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Hello.
You recently reported Mathematica dying with a bus error when your
tokens expired. Unfortunately, this seems to be a case of an
application which just doesn't deal as gracefully as we'd like with AFS;
we can mention it to the vendor, but from past experience AFS users are
probably not a large enough part of their customer base for them to
give it high priority.
From a practical standpoint, it's best to save your work frequently and
keep track of when your tokens expire so you can renew in time to
prevent nasty surprises.
Abby Fox
Academic Computing
