[18721] in Athena Bugs
Re: Problem with new Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Wed Jan 31 12:21:39 2001
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To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:44:34 EST."
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:21:34 -0500
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Thanks. I found the problem with the preferences. Somehow, the owner was
root. All fixed now.
This release also broke my APC Powerchute monitoring and I had to reinstall
that for the first time in many years. When it rains, it pours.
Roger
> All Sun machines are getting the latter two errors - about not being able
> to load Java because of a missing library - and I am looking into the
> problem right now; it should be okay tomorrow.
>
> However, you're the first case I've heard of someone getting that message
> about not being able to create preferences.js; I didn't get that one. If
> you don't have a preferences.js when Netscape expects one, you could very
> well have a problem saving preference changes (mine save with no problem).
>
> The temporary fix is to get yourself a fresh preferences.js:
> add infoagents
> cp /mit/infoagents/share/Netscape/4.75/preferences.js ~/.netscape/
>
> The REAL fix is to solve the other problem, which should solve your
> problem in the bargain. Stay tuned.
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>
> > I got the following error when I logged in this morning. I thought it migh
t
> > be related to the new release so I updated my workstation. I still get the
> > error:
> >
> > 10:31 /var/athena/infoagents/arch/share/bin/netscape.adjusted:
> > /var/local/rar/.netscape/preferences.js: cannot create
> > 10:32 ERROR: ld.so.1: /var/athena/infoagents/arch/sun4x_57/MIT-only/netscap
e
> > /netscape: fatal: libnspr4.so: open failed: No such file or directory
> > 10:32 Cant load plugin /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/java_v1.3.0/distrib/sun
4
> > x_57/jre/plugin/sparc/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Ignored.
> >
> > Also, it seems that my home page (and possibly more) have reverted to the
> > default. When I try to change them, I get an error message saying that:
> >
> > error saving options
> > Permission denied
> >
> > Help?
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> >
>
