[2954] in testers
Re: readcomics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jun 19 19:10:26 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, bug-outland@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU,
starflt@MIT.EDU, warlord@MIT.EDU, yandros@MIT.EDU, wdc@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jun 1996 01:43:24 EDT."
<199606150543.BAA02174@i-see-everything-twice.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:09:28 EDT
(testers is cc'd because there is relevance to stuff (more or less) in
the release.)
OK, I have a better idea of what is going on here.
For those who don't remember (or never saw it) the bug I originally
reported was that on an 8.0 SGI readcomics (in outland) produced the
following errors:
deliverator:/afs/athena/system/afsuser/arch/sun4m_54/bin: /mit/outland/bin/readcomics
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: xloadimage: Not found
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: xloadimage: Not found
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: xloadimage: Not found
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: xloadimage: Not found
yoav> well, xloadimage should be in the graphics locker, which is
yoav> where readcomics is probably getting it from, and it is in fact
yoav> there for the sgi, so I don't know what's wrong...
It appears that readcomics does not run xloadimage directly (it runs
metamail instead). Before doing this it adds /mit/mime/bin and
/mit/graphics/arch/@sys/bin to the path. One problem is that the mime
locker needs an sgi_53 link under arch. (starflt, warlord, yandros:
you are the peopel with bits on the locker, can one of you deal?)
However, this is not the only problem, because metamail is in
$athena_path in 8.0, on both the sun and SGI:
the-other-woman:~: where metamail
/usr/andrew/bin/metamail
It should be noted that /usr/andrew is a link off to a locker.
So it would appear that the problem is that metamail in the andrew
locker can't find xloadimage even tho it is in the path??? This is
strange, since when I run readcomics on the sun (I'm presumably still
getting the andrew version) it finds xloadimage. Note that if I
manually add /mit/mime/arch/sgi_52/bin (thus getting metamail out of
the mime locker) to the front of my path on the SGI it does find and
run xloadimage (although it looks like it is getting a different set
of default xresources than I'm used to, or something.
Jonathon
