[5958] in testers
panel clock applet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Jun 18 16:03:02 2004
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:02:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
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I've been having a problem with the clock applet in the new
Athena 9.3 release. It's been difficult to diagnose; I'll
describe what has been happening, but I haven't been able to
find out the causes.
The problem is: on some machines I do not have a clock in the
panel bar. (On other machines, I do have a clock.)
I first noticed this with the 9.3 beta release. Switching back
and forth between a Linux machine and a Solaris machine, I saw
that I didn't have a clock on Solaris, and did have a clock on
Linux. I didn't think much about it; I clicked menus on the
panel until I had removed and re-added my clock on Linux, and
doing this seemed to fix the situation on Solaris -- I had a
clock on the beta Solaris machine.
Today, though, when I tried a Solaris machine running 9.3 from
the early cluster, I again noticed that my clock applet had
disappeared. And the strange part is that I can switch back and
forth between two Solaris machines (csw.mit.edu and bart.mit.edu),
and watch myself have a clock on bart.mit.edu, but not have a
clock on csw.mit.edu.
I don't know what is causing the clock to vanish. It isn't a
bug that causes damage at all, but if this happens to many people
then it would be a very high-visibility bug that would cause
quite a few calls to the help system.
-Jacob
