[2572] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Minutes of 2000-01-13 release-team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Feb 1 05:26:03 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 05:25:57 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200102011025.FAA05058@Bearing-An-Hourglass.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: release-team@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[2567] in Release_7.7_team"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> 4. Solaris update lossage
>
> Four Solaris machines (two of them Ultra 1s) don't seem to have
> finished running mkserv. More investigation is required.
Actually there were 5 machines.
I got mail back from Tom Cavin (the owner of the 2 ultra1s) saying
that the problem was a bad .private script. (He was able to get rid
of it since he already had a better solution for the problem the
.private script was trying to solve. For those who don't know,
.private exiting with a non-zero exit status is a valid reason for
mkserv to exit but leave teh machine thinking it's in the middle of an
update.
The sparc5 (no-cookie) that I have access to, also seems to have
fallen victim to a bad .private script. The gross details of how
.private broke will go to the relevant people.
The remaining 2 machiens are eecs-ath-16, and athpal05. I'll send
mail to Myron, but at this point I'm betting on more bad .private
scripts.
--
Jonathon
