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Re: Athena 9.0 public release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jul 19 15:21:04 2001
Message-Id: <200107191921.PAA20626@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Duan <zicheng@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
Reply-to: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:05:07 EDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.10.10107191500390.2667-100000@rwf.lms.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:21:01 -0400
Hi,
The problem is a simple one. The announcement you quote below is an
advance warning of the release that is going to become available on
Wednesday the 25th (for linux). At that point your machine should
take the update automatically some time when no one is logged in. The
reason for the advanced announcement is so that people are not caught
off guard by the changes in the new release. If you continue to have
problems taking the new release after next Wednesday, please let us
know.
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
MIT/IS Athena Server Operations
> 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
> >
>
