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Re: Athena 9.0 public release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Duan)
Thu Jul 19 15:01:22 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:05:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Duan <zicheng@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200107181943.PAA29954@equal-rites.mit.edu>
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Hi there,
While updating tellinghuisen.lms.mit.edu, a PC which runs RedHat Linux 6.2
(Zoot), and kernel 2.2.14-5.0, I logged in as root and typed update_ws
9.0, it replies "no new version is available". Admittedly I did set
AUTOUPDATE to true, but it seems that this server has never been
updated...
What do you suggest the problem might be? Thanks!
Cheers,
Richard
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Greg Hudson wrote:
> The Athena 9.0 public release is currently scheduled for the evening
> of Tuesday July 24th for Solaris and IRIX, and the evening of
> Wednesday July 25th for Linux.
>
> This is a major release. There are some striking changes in the
> default login, chiefly the replacement of the Dash menu and the MWM
> window manager with the GNOME panel and the Sawfish window manager.
> User release notes, which describe the major changes, are available
> via "help" under the "Release Notes" entry.
>
> Some Solaris machines will be unable to update without a reinstall due
> to their partitioning (Solaris 8 requires more space on the root and
> usr partitions than Solaris 7 did). We will identify those machines
> during the coming few days, move them into a special no-update
> cluster, and contact the machine owners to let them know.
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please send them to
> release-team@mit.edu. If you find bugs in the new release, please
> report them using "sendbug".
>
> If you need to update a machine manually to 9.0 after it goes out
> (because you have a machine which is set AUTOUPDATE false), do a
> console login (^P at the xlogin prompt) as root and run:
>
> SOLARIS:
> detach -a
> attach -O dev-sun4sys-90
> update_ws
>
> IRIX:
> detach -a
> attach -O dev-sgisys-90
> update_ws
>
> LINUX:
> update_ws 9.0
>
