[21558] in Athena Bugs
Re: Fwd: Matlab installation on Athena is not working (case
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Jamous)
Tue Mar 4 13:57:53 2003
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 13:54:11 -0500
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
From: Daniel Jamous <jamous@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu, amb@mit.edu,
casetracker@mit.edu, Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>,
Phillip Long <longpd@mit.edu>
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Garry,
Thanks very much!
I just had a phone conversation with Herb Sawin, the faculty member who
originally sent the complaint. It turns out that he's able to reproduce
some of the problems on his PC on Windows!
So I suggest we hold off the manipulations on the MATLAB locker for now.
I'm suspecting the network is not the main cause of the problems (even
though it needs upgrading). Rather, I think the problems have to do with
the programming constructs they're using and some possible internal MATLAB
bugs. This would explain why the problems didn't occur last fall (the
homeworks were different) and why the other class (in ocean engineering)
that is using MATLAB in 1-115 this spring is not seeing any of these
problems (I suppose they're not using the same programming constructs).
I'm going to meet with the class this afternoon and the prof will show me
his problems on his PC. I will report back later...
Thanks,
Daniel
At 12:54 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> >> The temporary workaround would be great. The class is meeting this
> >> afternoon between 4 and 6pm and again on Thursday at the same time. If
> >> you or Camilla could manually set the machines to run Matlab locally
> >> before this evening's class that would be great and we could see if the
> >> problems still happen then.
>
> It doesn't look like this is going to get done before then; there's a
>Delivery process meeting from 2-4 PM this afternoon. I will try to make
>sure it happens before class on Thursday.
>
> >> Alex also mentioned that he would be willing to change the acls on the
> >> locker- but would need to know exactly how to set the acls as he hasn't
> >> done IP acl'ing before. What commands should he run? Also, how long
> >> approximately would it take to get that running?
>
> If it's acceptable to the licensing terms, putting "mit rl" on the
>AFS ACL for the matlab_v6.5 locker should be sufficient (basically, just
>copy what was done for the acro_v5.0.5 locker; this should sound
>familiar to Alex). Changing the acls shouldn't take very long at all; I
>don't know how long it will take to push a copy of the data onto all of
>the machines, but unless the network is a lot worse than I think, it
>should be done by Thursday.
>
>Garry
