From lglenn@ece.umd.edu Thu Jun 16 15:11:48 2005
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:11:47 -0400
From: Luther B. Glenn III <lglenn@ece.umd.edu>
To: silio@eng.umd.edu
Cc: mckinney@umd.edu
Subject: AVW Glue Sun Terminals and ENEE350

Dr. Silio,

	After having looked into the issue we discussed yesterday afternoon, it
appears that the problem may be attributed to recent patches/changes in
the GLUE infrastructure.  I have already contacted the GLUE support
staff regarding this and will work with them towards a more permanent
solution.  In the interim, I have discovered a viable work-around that
will allow the students to function and complete their assignments until
such time as the GLUE support staff and I are able to render a permanent
solution. 

The work-around is as follows:

1. Log in to one of the Jasmine lab computers
2. Launch X-Win32 & initiate the X-session labeled "Glue"
3. In either of the Xterm windows that appears, enter "echo $DISPLAY"
   This should return a value that appears as
"<hostname>.ece.umd.edu:0.0"
4. In the same Xterm window, enter "setenv DISPLAY
<hostname>.eng.umd.edu:0.0"
where "<hostname>" should be replaced with the value returned from step
3.

>From this point on, the procedure to launch "sim" should follow
normally.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and will endeavor to remedy this as
expeditiously as possible.


Regards,

Luther


Luther B. Glenn III
Systems Engineer
Electrical & Computer Engineering - Computing Facilities
University of Maryland
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