[1016] in Release_7.7_team
re: Early Athena Release 8.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (oliver thomas)
Wed Jun 18 18:37:32 1997
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-77-mtg@menelaus.local
Cc: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: your message of Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:02:54 -0400.
<199706181902.PAA08793@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:37:29 EDT
From: oliver thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
hmm. a similar thing happened on one of our sparc 5s. it took the update
last night. this morning it was hung with an error about not being able
to find a bootable device. i didn't have much time to investigate, and we
had all the customizations backed up, so i just started a clean reinstall.
after the install, it gave the error at boot time that matthew reported.
when greg's mail came in, i went back to check on the machine, and sure
enough, the override flag was missing from the attach command in
/etc/athena/reactivate. added the flag and ran reactivate, and it
attached the packs correctly.
but, since the machine was just installed, it should have had the default
reactivate file. not sure where it got that incorrect reactivate file
from.
oliver
> > the machine was/is configured to take updates automatically.
> > however, now I cannot log in at all (even as root) to see what's
> > going on with the machine.
>
> You can probably log in as root by typing ^P at the xlogin prompt and
> then doing a console login.
>
> > The console pops up occasionally with messages about "you are not
> > allowed to attach a filesystem here" and "srvd/auto-update: Not
> > Found"
>
> Interesting. You don't have a local version of the reactivate script,
> do you? The problem is in this line, near the end:
>
> /bin/athena/attach $quiet -h -n -o hard -O $SYSLIB
>
> If the "-O" option isn't present, that would explain your problem.
> Why the "-O" option wouldn't be there, I'm not sure, unless it's the
> result of some local customization. (What mkserv services do you have
> installed?)
