[26143] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.11: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Wed Oct 20 23:39:45 2004
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:23:09 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:34:33 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Sorry about the delay in following up; this needed on-campus testing,
which is harder to remember to get around to.
Anyhow, I can reproduce it reliably with a test account, but only on
Linux (gorf in the w92 test cluster); it works correctly for both me and
the test account on Solaris.
It's not matlab specific, and not specific to using the -tty option on
matlab; I can also reproduce it with acroread.
While no message appears in ~/.sw_messages, that file does get touched;
it remains exactly the same except for the modtime.
> Are you sure the matlab you're running is
> /mit/matlab/arch/$ATHENA_SYS/bin/matlab and not some other matlab? That might
> explain it. Only the base locker matlab wrapper script does the messaging
> correctly...
I'm using add, and getting:
/mit/matlab/arch/i386_rh9/bin/matlab
so it's $ATHENA_SYS_COMPAT that's being used, but I'm not wrapping it.
> This may seem like an odd question- but are you sure you can create a non-zero
> length file in your home directory? If not, that would explain what you're
> seeing but I kind of doubt it. Can you try using another account? Do you
> still see the problem?
My homedir permissions and quota are fine.
