[20640] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.1.14: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Aug 27 11:37:54 2002
Message-Id: <200208271537.LAA17550@dit.mit.edu>
To: dmcollin@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[20637] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:37:52 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
You wrote to bugs:
>What were you trying to do?
> Start matlab on a private athena workstation over ssh.
>
>What's wrong:
> Matlab freezes completely after a message is echoed to console
>about deleting a lock file.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> After rm -rf ~/.sw* everything worked fine.
I can't reproduce this problem- it works for me. File ~/.sw_messages
is not a lockfile in the traditional sense- rather, it stores
"cookies", one per line, which are flags that record that you have
been sent certain messsages so our messaging system doesn't send them
to you again. I haven't heard of problems with this causing Matlab (or
any other application that uses it) to hang. The messaging system uses
Netscape (or Lynx, if an X display is unavailable) through a script
called "htmlview" in the Athena release. It's conceivavble that if
these were not accessible when you tried to run Matlab, it may have
triggered the problem.
If you can get this to happen reproducibly, please let me know the exact
steps to took leading to the problem, along with the exact text of
the message.
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
