lynx-dev Re: AIX Y2K upgrade problem

[Clair Wilson]

Philip

Yes, all other products can get to the web. So that is not it.
The single / was a typo. It fails with http:// also.
So I am stumped. Thanks for your help. Any other ideas ?


Thank You
 
Mr. Clair Wilson
Internet Administrator
Mainframe System Programmer
Information Services
Robert Packer Hospital
Sayre, Pa.

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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Philip Webb wrote:

> 990128 Clair Wilson wrote: 
> > We have AIX 3.25 running on an rs6000.
> > Lynx has been working great for years.
> > Recently I upgraded aix with IBM's year 2000 updates
> > As soon as I did that, we could no longer use lynx.
> > Every time we try to access a remote site, we get message :
> > "Alert!:  Unable to connect to remote host"
> > I upgraded lynx from 2.5 to 2.8 in hopes that the problem might be solved.
> 
> the latest Lynx is 2-8-1 from  www.slcc.edu/lynx/release :
> 2-8 is  c 1 year  out-of-date; that probably isn't your problem,
> but in practice Lynx volunteers support only the latest version.
> 
> > However, that had no effect. It appears one of the fixes
> > which got applied to aix from IBM's y2k fix tape caused this problem.
> > All were successfully applied and appear to have made aix y2k compliant.
> > Has anyone else experienced this problem ?
> > Does anyone know what I might do in order to make lynx useable again ?
> 
> AFAIK this hasn't been mentioned to lynx-dev before.
> can you use other browsers to get to remote sites?
>    
> > Ellen had a similar problem quite a while ago;
> > We run lynx on an IBM RS6000 machine running AIX 3.2.5.
> > After we applied IBM PTF U444171 and subsequently re-booted
> > (since this PTF hit the kernel), lynx stopped functioning.
> > The message it gives is: Alert!:  Unable to connect to remote host.
> > lynx: Can't access start file http:/www.upenn.edu/
> 
> of course, that needs another slash:  http://www.upenn.edu/ ;
> Lynx won't start if it can't find the start file,
> so check you have something accessible in  lynx.cfg .
>  
> try those  2  suggestions & maybe someone else here can help further,
> but the problem may be in your system & communications, not Lynx.
> 
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