[18723] in Athena Bugs
Re: Problem with new Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Wed Jan 31 12:59:37 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 12:28:07 EST."
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:59:33 -0500
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Todd,
Another problem which may not be yours is when I try to go to a web page
from
within mail (exmh) it tries to launch Netscape 4.61. I looked through the
preferences and did not see a way to control it.
Roger
> 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/net
scap
> > 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 t
he
> > > > default. When I try to change them, I get an error message saying that
:
> > > >
> > > > error saving options
> > > > Permission denied
> > > >
> > > > Help?
> > > >
> > > > Roger
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
