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Re: Debathena: mathematica

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Oct 6 22:58:15 2009

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Any chance that was Sunday morning, possibly around 5 AM? There's a
weekly AFS server restart that causes all fileservers to become
inaccessible for anywhere between 10-60 minutes.

(Also, we'd appreciate if you could use the reply-all feature in your
mail client, you can be sure that others can participate in the discussion.)

- Evan

Shannon Wang wrote:
> It seems to work now. I tried this on a different workstation on the
> same lab network on Sunday, so I thought it may be a recurring
> problem. Thanks though, I'll try it on different workstations if I run
> in to this again.
>
> shannon
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu
> <mailto:broder@mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi -
>        That could either mean a problem with the workstation's internet
>     connection, or a temporary problem with the file server, as the error
>     message indicates. It's typically not a bug with the actual software.
>
>     Are you having this problem repeatedly, or did it happen once?
>     Could you
>     try again from a different workstation?
>
>     - Evan
>
>     sxwang@MIT.EDU <mailto:sxwang@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>     > System name:          blatt
>     > Type:                 i686
>     > Display type:         Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated
>     Graphics Controller (rev 02)
>     >
>     > Shell:                        /bin/bash (?)
>     > Window manager:               unknown
>     >
>     > What were you trying to do?
>     >       run mathematica
>     >
>     > What's wrong:
>     >       "connection timed out while trying to attach locker. This
>     probably indicates a temporary problem with the file server
>     containing this locker. Try again later.
>     >
>     > The attach command failed for the locker math_v7.0.1 which
>     should contain math version 7.0.1.
>     >
>     > What should have happened:
>     >       open mathematica
>     >
>     > Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>     >
>
>

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