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[McIDAS #GHE-647300]: McIDAS-X 2016 isn't working because...

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #GHE-647300]: McIDAS-X 2016 isn't working because...
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:55:04 -0600
Hi Gilbert,

re:
> So it looks like I found another upgrade bug with Centos 6.8.
> 
> When I login from the user prompt

Do you mean from the console?

re:
> after booting, and turning off
> autologin,  it says that I have a keyring issue, but
> when I type "seahorse" to replace the password, it can't because X windows
> permissions after doing an su - mcidas won't let it. So, currently, it
> will only let me log in as LDM and root on all servers, via windows (if I
> login as ldm, I can su - user just fine). And neither will run McIDAS -X.

I don't understand the turning off autologin and keyring issues... I'll have
to get together with Mike Schmidt tomorrow (he is gone for the day) to
discuss what might be happening.

BUT, I verified that I can run McIDAS-X in two different ways with
no problems.  Both of these ways required that I comment out the
setting of the DISPLAY environment variable in both the 'ldm' and
'mcidas' accounts.  Here are the two ways:

1) ssh -XY address@hidden

   DISPLAY gets set by the system; no user intervention is required

   cd $MCDATA
   mcidas

   Works nicely.

2) ssh -XY address@hidden

   su - mcidas

   cd $MCDATA
   mcidas

   Also works nicely.

That's all for today as I have to run...

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: GHE-647300
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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