[3213] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Caution: We deployed a Red Hat-blessed kernel that won't boot on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Mar 29 17:56:04 2002
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:56:00 -0500
Message-Id: <200203292256.RAA32745@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
CC: release-team@mit.edu, owls@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <1017196917.5247.218.camel@tokata.mit.edu>
> Question to Release Team: Should we try and do better than Red Hat
> here, or should we just try and warn people that the problem exists,
> and work to quickly deploy whatever fix Red Hat eventually offers?
So, it seems we've decided on the "warn" route. (Well, it sounds like
we've assigned Derek to look at the problem, but presumably that will
take time.) What do we want to tell people? I thought about
composing a note, but I felt that it would come out roughly like:
There might be a problem. We think it's very unlikely that it will
affect you. If it does affect you, you're totally screwed for now;
you can't recover your system without guru help, and reinstalling
will merely destroy your data without actually making your system
work.
I'm not too worried about the problem itself since it only seems to
affect one machine so far, but I am bit little worried about sending
an announcement to that effect.
