[867] in Athena Bugs
re: Problems with "6.0c attach" [ellis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Fri Sep 9 11:26:21 1988
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 88 11:24:45 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Rob,
There seem to be two problems hiding in this report:
1. Something is causing attachtab to get trashed.
2. attach may be relying a little too much on the correctness
of attachtab, so problem 1 escalates in importance.
Jerry
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Cc: ellis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Problems with "6.0c attach"
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 88 08:50:24 EDT
From: Steve Ellis <ellis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Attach failures are occurring in 6.0c workstations in "user land" due
to a trashed attachtab. The immediate cause of the problem appears to be
one or both of the following.
a) In a .login:
attach a &
attach b &
attach c &
b) In a .logout:
detach a & etc. etc.
Here in E40, I was able to trash my attachtab more reliably with detach, but
in one of the cases reported from the field, the problem most likely occurred
on login. In other cases, the problem was not noticed until someone tried
to login and got the 'unable to attach home directory' message.
