Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
> This morning a handful of workstations got upgraded from 6.3 to 6.4 and
> things seemed to be functional, until we tried to log in to one of our
> instrument accounts that for various reasons uses olvwm/openwin as the
> desktop (and no, I don't have the option of changing that at this time).
> The desktop appears to load correctly, and mouse-focus and clicking
> appears to work, but the .openwin-menu entries no longer function other
> than clicking "exit" to log out of the session. I've tried reinstalling
> xview and xview-client rpms, but that doesn't resolve it. I don't think
> it's an issue with the user account, as the underlying commands work
> when I su and execute them in an xterm. I was also able to reproduce the
> problem on three separate computers.
>
> I don't usually have to deal with these desktop issues so I'm hella
> rusty when it comes to debugging them. Does anyone have any tidbits to
> point me in the right direction to fix this? (Hopefully soon, since we
> are supposed to use this account for observations tonight)
Could there be a) a permission problem; b) is selinux enabled? c) how are
the home directories mounted (I assume that/s where the .openwin-menu
files are).
Observatory? Kek? Mauna Kea?
mark