[2987] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Linux update problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 2 10:05:13 2001
Message-Id: <200110021405.KAA32243@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 03:36:51 EDT."
<200110020736.DAA11170@hodge-podge.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:05:05 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I've removed the 9.0.17 line from control-9.0 in the athena cell so
> no more machines try to take the update.
An unexpected consequence of this action was that machines which
successfully auto-updated to 9.0.17 then auto-downgraded to 9.0.15.
Which isn't a problem, as far as I know, but our update script
probably shouldn't do that; some patch releases won't tolerate a
downgrade, such as the 8.4 patch release which introduced rpm 4.x.
I'll look into it.
> GX150s attempting to update would hang and never finish the update;
> we tracked down this problem to a modprobe of the usb-uhci kernel
> module that appeared to go into kernel wait and then never came
> back; this made a kudzu never exit and so update_ws never exited.
> This is probably from one of the added scriptlets in the athena-ws
> spec file.
Specifically:
# turn on gx150 USB support for machines that were originally installed with a
# more ignorant kudzu
if /sbin/lspci -n|grep -q 8086:2444 ; then
...
Andrew?
