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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Jun 28 22:39:31 1992

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 22:39:04 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU


These are almost certainly the aklog problems.  They're fixed, no?

  jik

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 16:24:08 GMT
From: rutledge@sg2.mit.edu
Apparently-To: bugs@athena.mit.edu
Apparently-To: rutledge@athena.mit.edu

Since the swtich to AFS was made about two-three weeks ago, I have been
experiencing sporadic but persistent problems with my athena startup.  The
symptoms appear to be a failure during intialization to grab and/or execute
some startup file, possbilty due to inability to locate.

I am running on a VAXstation 3100.  These problems occur about 50% of the time
when I am logging into the Athena environment.  Some of the observable 
problems are:

(1) opens Dash and custom windows (startup.X) but does not execute .cshrc or
.cshrc.mine files.  I can 'ls' all the files in my home directory, but I get
'permission denied' when I use more.  With emacs, I get the message that the 
file exists but is read protected.  The file protections are listed as 
-rw-------.  I presume I am not being recognized by the system as the owner
of my own files.

(2) I cannot execute the 'add' command.  I get 'add:command not found'.

(3) I can open mail with xmh, but the mail handler crashes when I try to 
compose or reply.  From the csh, 'comp' results in 'install-mh:invocation 
error'. 

I do not observe any unusual error messages in my console window during
session initialization.

I hope that this is enough information for the problem to be diagnosed and
resolved.  If not, please contact me at the number below.  

Greg Rutledge
Dept. Chem. Engr.
userid: rutledge@athena.mit.edu
x3-0171


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