[25790] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.3.8: mathematica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erica H Peterson)
Mon Jul 12 11:40:39 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:40:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erica H Peterson <astronut@mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
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System name: cheshire-cat.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.3.8 (with mkserv)
Display type: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev
15)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
A user contacted the OLC office this morning, reporting that he was
getting a license server error when trying to run Mathematica.
What's wrong:
Mathematica will not start, and gives an error message stating that the
license has expired, and it cannot contact the license server.
What should have happened:
Mathematica starts.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
On Athena Server (linux) Version 9.3.8, Athena Server (sun4) Version
9.2.28, I tried running the following:
>> athena% mathematica
>> attach: /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/math_v5.0.1 attached to
/mit/math_v5.0.1 for filesystem math_v5.0.1
>>
>> Starting Mathematica (Notebook interface), please wait...
>>
>> Hit shift-return to terminate and evaluate each line...
And got the following error:
>> License Expired
>>
>> The front end could not contact the MathLM server "license-3". Make
>> sure that MathLM is running and can communicate with this machine.
>> Contact your system administrator for further information.
On a dialup machine (all-night-tool), I got the following:
>> athena% math
>>
>> Starting Mathematica. please wait....
>>
>> To exit type Quit (case sensitive) at the Mathematica prompt...
>>
>> for the Notebook interface version, start as "mathematica" instead...
>>
>> Mathematica 5.0 for Sun Solaris (UltraSPARC)
>> Copyright 1988-2003 Wolfram Research, Inc.
>>
>> You will need to get a password from your
>> license certificate or from Wolfram Research
>> (http://register.wolfram.com).
>> Machine name: all-night-tool.mit.edu
>> MathID: 5701-98439-81337
>>
>> You will need a valid license ID and password in order
>> to proceed. Go to http://register.wolfram.com or
>> consult your Getting Started documentation.
