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Debathena Troubleshooting and FAQ's
 | Under Construction In the articles below, Debathena refers to both the cluster workstation environment (no longer available) and the athena.dialup environment (which is Ubuntu 18.04 with vendor packages providing most of the former functionality). We're working on removing outdated information and clarifying the extent of local-to-MIT customization. Athena variously refers to accounts, infrastructure (such as the AFS file system), software packages, and a workstation software install. |
Installation and Upgrades
- How can I install additional software or packages on Debathena?
- How do I install the Debathena-login metapackage?
- How do I install the Debathena-login-graphical metapackage?
- How do I install the Debathena-standard metapackage?
- How do I install Debathena via PXE?
- How do I install Kerberos on a non-Debathena Ubuntu machine ?
- How do I reinstall the OpenAFS metapackages for Debathena?
- Software Licenses in Debathena
- Troubleshooting Debathena installation
- Upgrading from Debathena Jaunty to Debathena Lucid
- What are the hardware requirements for installing Debathena?
- What are the major changes between Debathena Jaunty and Debathena Lucid?
- What do I need to know about installing Debathena in a virtual machine?
- Which Debathena metapackage should I install?
Troubleshooting
- How can I get help with Debathena issues?
- How do I open a new Terminal window on Debathena?
- How do I prevent my tickets from being renewed when I unlock my screen on Debathena?
- I'm being prompted whether or not to replace the "path.debathena" file. What should I do?
- MATLAB compiler issues on Ubuntu lucid and later releases
- What AFS sysname should I use when deploying software for Debathena?
- What are the known issues for Debathena?
- When I try to ssh to a newly-installed Debathena machine, why does it immediately error with "Connection closed"?
- When I log in to a Debathena workstation, why do I get an error about a .dmrc file?
- When I log in to Debathena, why do I only get one panel at the bottom of the screen with lot of missing menus and icons?
- When I type "renew" in Debathena, why does it ask me for the password for the wrong username?
- Where did the Athena prompt (athena%) go?
- Why did I receive an error about signature verification when trying to update my Debathena machine?
- Why did my all MIT email disappear when I logged in to Debathena?
- Why did my desktop background and panel applets disappear when logging in to Debathena?
- Why didn't I get tickets when I logged in to my Debathena machine with a local account and my Kerberos password?
- Why do I get an "invalid Python installation" error on Debathena?
- Why do I get prompted for my password when connecting from a Debathena machine via SSH?
- Why does 'aklog' or 'renew' hang on Debathena?
- Why does Debathena say "No such file or directory" when I try to run some locker software?
- Why does Debathena say "Your AFS client does not seem to be working"?
- Why does Firefox use Acrobat Reader to display PDFs on Debathena?
- Why does the "lastlog" command on Debathena no longer tell me when an MIT user last logged in?
- Why don't I get Kerberos tickets or AFS tokens when I connect to a Debathena machine via ssh?
- Why don't I get my AFS home directory when logging in to a Debathena workstation?
Usage
- How can I tell which version of Ubuntu I'm running?
- How can I tell which Debathena metapackage I'm running?
- How can I print from Debathena to a printer that isn't in the printer list?
- How do I group like windows in the Debathena taskbar?
- How do I log someone out of a Debathena Trusty workstation?
- How do I verify the checksum of a file on Debathena?
- How do I configure SSH to always delegate my Kerberos tickets?
- How do I set a default printer in Debathena?
- How do I turn a debathena-cluster machine into debathena-workstation?
- How do I open a ticket in the Debathena bug tracking system?
- How do I enable access control on Debathena?
- How do I use a different window manager on Debathena?
- Is there Eclipse on Debathena?
- What are the various session options for public Debathena machines?
- What are the known issues with Debathena Lucid?
- Which 32-bit libraries are not available on 64-bit Ubuntu Lucid?
Workstations
- Debathena Private Workstation Owner Guide
- How do I install the Debathena-workstation metapackage?
- How do I upgrade my Debathena workstation to the newest release of Ubuntu?
- Why doesn't pine's "bounce" feature work correctly in Debathena?
- Why doesn't Debathena work correctly behind a NAT device or home router?
- Why don't I get my AFS home directory when logging in to a Debathena workstation?
Support Information
Release Notes
See Also
Help Desk
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