[18722] in Athena Bugs
Re: Problem with new Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Jan 31 12:28:13 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:28:07 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@mit.edu>
cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200101311721.MAA00721@rar.mit.edu>
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It turns out that the Java problems are not related to the recent Athena
release, but to some changes which were made in the java_v1.3.0 locker
last night. If we can't fix it today, we plan to revert it.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Roger A. Roach wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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