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Re: Temporary workaround for panel lossage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jul 18 13:49:23 2003

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:46:23 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Fri, 18 Jul 2003
at 13:44:47 -0400 in <1058550287.21136.51.camel@error-messages.mit.edu>:


> This sounds like the experience of a user whose dotfiles override the
> setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux.  (Was this on Linux?  You didn't
> mention which platform.) 

Yes, on zsr, a dev cell machine.

> > What data would you like me to gather in similar situations?
> 
> (1) The platform, of course.
> (2) Whether the dotfiles muck with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> (3) The contents of the .gnome directory, in order to figure out
>      why the conversion script created the redundant www icons.

OK.

The user didn't seem like the type to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, whatever
that means.

--jhawk

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