[3088] in Release_7.7_team
Athena 9.0.22 patch release on January 21
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas E Cavin)
Tue Jan 15 18:06:54 2002
From: Thomas E Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:06:50 -0500
To: Athena Release Team <release-team@mit.edu>
CC: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200201152249.RAA15600@error-messages.mit.edu>
Hi,
I'm running Athena Linux on a laptop, and I'm regularly shutting it down
and restarting it. (I take it home and don't trust the pause feature.)
The shutdown process does not unmount the AFS /usr/vice/cache filesystem,
and occasionally doesn't unmount other filesystems.
I vaguely recall some mention of a fix for this that was to be in an
upcoming Athena release. Is this the one?
Thanks,
--Tom
Greg Hudson writes:
> The Athena 9.0.22 patch release is currently scheduled for the evening
> of Monday January 21. Changes in this patch release include:
>
> * panel won't nuke your external applets (such as the taskbar)
> anymore if you double-click on the logout button.
>
> * ifhp (the HP printer control program we use with lprng) should be
> properly configured on Linux.
>
> * krb5.conf has some new realms.
>
> * ntpd should actually synchronize time now, on all platforms, we
> hope.
>
> * There are some security fixes (none of the problems are easily
> exploitable, just worrisome) in the krb5 login, ftp, and ftpd
> programs.
>
> * On Solaris, patches 109279-18, 109742-04, 111310-01, 109904-05,
> 109906-06, 111293-04, and 108528-12 were applied to fix a problem
> which could lock up Sunblade and Netra X1 machines (among others).
>
> * On Linux, the root and bot filesystems will be changed from ext2fs
> to ext3fs, for greater robustness.
>
> * On Linux, the iptables, pam, usermode, kernel, and kernel-headers
> RPMs were upgrade to stay current with Red Hat 7.1.
>
> If you have a machine set AUTOUPDATE=false, you can update it manually
> after the release goes out by doing a console login as root and
> running "update_ws".
>
> Please send any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.
>
--
Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
WCCF Computer Operations Manager Email: tec@ai.mit.edu
