[3467] in testers
Athena 8.2 Third Party software problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon May 18 19:04:21 1998
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:04:14 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have run into the following so far:
Sun OED GUI interface is broken: doing "add oed; oed" is supposed to open a GUI
but instead generates an error message about "Can't Open Display"; trying
things like "setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0.0" causes a bus error.
I suspect this is because Solaris 2.6 seems to handle character sets
differently; the binary, /mit/ot/sun4binaries/PatMotif41, requires
that an environment variable XLIBI18N_PATH be set to point to a
directory "C" containing a file Codeset that has character set info
(file /mit/ot/lib/X11/app-defaults/C/Codeset). I don't know if this file
can be edited to make it work again or not...
Sun Lucid Common LISP ("add lucidcl; lisp") segfaults. No idea why, but
the binary is about 5 years old...
The Sun Acrobat reader ("add acro; acroread") prints "Warning: charset
"STRING" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". Different character set
handling again? It would be nice if the error could be made to go
away, even though the application still runs. I tried grepping for
STRING but couldn't find it...
Sun macsyma is broken ("add macsyma; macsyma"), fails with "symbol
__sbrk_lock: referenced symbol not found"- looks like we need a new
binary from the vendor?
SGI (for a change :-) qt libraries in the qt_v1.3.2 locker are broken- don't
recall exactly what the errors are... I'm not too suprised because the
code is very delicate and compiler-dependent. We have source, and I can
try rebuilding it...
The "setpass" command in adsm (which is used to reset a user's adsm password
from a default one supplied when the account is set up) is broken, I think
both on Sun and SGI- Brett Rosen found this and traced it to "hostname" now
being set to "foo.mit.edu" instead of "foo" for a machine by that name.
Unfortunately this can't be tested easily unless an adsm account is set
up first for a given machine. It is run by doing "add adsm", followed by
"/mit/adsm/setpass". I'm not sure if this can be corrected on the
server side or not. I have a call in to Dave Kalenderian about it...
Of these, adsm is the most important to get working again.
Alex
