Re: PFTMPDIR message

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Scott McMillan (mcmillan++at++cambridge.com)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:26:31 -0400

Brad Colbert wrote:
>
> We have an older application that was compiled (God knows how long ago)
> with Performer 1.? . The machine that the application ran on was just
> upgraded to Irix 6.2 from what we think was 6.1.
>
> Anyways, the message we get back when we try to run the application is
> something like...
>
> PfInit cannot create semaphore arena via NFS (/usr/tmp) Change PFTMPDIR
>
> No matter what we set PFTMPDIR to we get the same message.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brad

I am going to guess that your file system containing /usr/tmp changed
from EFS to XFS. If so, this is the cause of the error, and there is
a patch that you can apply to your program that will fix this problem.
It was posted to the group a few years ago and you can find it in the
monthly archives (probably do a search on PFTMPDIR).

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