Problems with system tools in 3.2 (aka Oops)

[Paul Ning]

Oops, I found the answer to my last message in an old posting to 
this group.


In my last message I wrote,

> We have just upgraded our two machines (4D/80GT and 4D/220GTX) to 3.2.
> The 80 seems to be happy but we are having difficulties running
> some of the utilities in the System Menu on the 220.  Here are the
> symptoms :
> 
> 1) WorkSpace - when selected, the only result is the message
> 	       "Can't connect with File Access Monitor (fam)"
>	       in the console window.
>
> 2) Transfer Manager - when selected, nothing happens.
> 
> 3) System Manager & Confidence Tests - a window pops up, and then goes away.
>
> The /etc/services and /usr/etc/inetd.conf files on both machines are 
> identical and the executables /usr/etc/fam, /usr/etc/rpc.toolkitbus are
> present as well.


The fix was given by Robert Viduya <cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!uflorida!stat!vsserv!prism!robert%shangri-la.gatech.edu at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> :

> Just a word of warning: if your SGI machines are being ypserved from
> non-SGI ypmaster (ours is a Sun 4/280) and you're planning on
> upgrading to 3.2, make sure that /etc/services AND /etc/rpc on the
> ypmaster are merged with the versions on the SGI.  Otherwise things
> break, like the new WorkSpace manager.


I fixed /etc/rpc on our ypmaster (a Sun 3/260), rebooted the 4D/220GTX, and
all of the System Menu stuff worked. :)

I still don't know why our 4D/80GT (which is also set up as a ypslave) 
didn't have any of these problems before the fix, but, hey, why worry
about things that ain't broke?


Paul Ning
Dept. of Elec. Engr.
Stanford University, Durand 358
Stanford, CA 94305-4035
paul at kaos.stanford.edu