[17889] in Athena Bugs

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: linux 8.4.1: exmh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jun 7 20:12:27 2000

To: Omri Schwarz <ocschwar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, starflt@MIT.EDU, warlord@MIT.EDU, yandros@MIT.EDU,
        lcs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 07 Jun 2000 20:12:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: Omri Schwarz's message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:55:01 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hog5d115n.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>

Omri Schwarz <ocschwar@MIT.EDU> writes:

> What's wrong:
> Error in startup script: child process exited abnormally
>     while executing
> "exec athdir /afs/athena/project/mime bin"
>     invoked from within
> "set mime(dir) [exec athdir /afs/athena/project/mime bin]"
>     (file "/mit/sipb/linuxbin/exmh" line 32)
> 
> 
> What should have happened:
> 
> Ne reading my mail.
> 
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> athena% athdir /afs/athena/project/mime bin
> athena%

The mime locker is missing an arch directory for the i386_linux22
system type.  Presumably this is the root of the problem.

I'm not sure why ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT didn't cause athdir to find the
binaries in the i386_linux2 directory, but I'm not an athdir expert.

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post