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Re: Reminder: Athena 9.1.18 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Dec 17 16:03:46 2002
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Ji-yong Wang <jywang@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20021216124741.00aa2f48@po9.mit.edu>
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Date: 17 Dec 2002 16:03:43 -0500
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Can you tell me how your system was installed?
It appears, with a single exception, to have exactly the same RPM's as
an Athena 9.0.24 system.
It is as if, instead of running the Athena install scripts, someone
carefully hand-installed all the relevant RPM's. Hand-installing this,
is generally an incorrect thing to do because the install script does a
few tiny cleanups. For example, setting the correct version number in
/etc/athena/version so that the update script will know what the current
installed version is, and take proper action.
update_ws is not working for you for precisely that reason.
I don't know off the top of my head what other subtle thing are done by
the install script that may also be in the incorrect state, so until I
confer with others, I warn AGAINST hand setting a value into
/etc/athena/version.
Once I know how your system was installed, I may be able to suggest the
next steps you should take.
-Bill Cattey
Team Leader
Athena UNIX Platfor Team
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 12:52, Ji-yong Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It might be too late to ask the question on it. Until today I had the time
> to apply
> this patch but got ERROR message.
>
> After I logged in as root and run "update_ws", I got
> "You cannot take an update on a layered machine"
>
> This initial problem is from the phenomena that I can't run "ssh nde.mit.edu"
> from athena any more. My host server is running linux 9.0 with host name
> "nde.mit.edu". Please help me!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ji-yong
>
> At 01:09 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >This is a reminder that the Athena 9.1.18 patch release is currently
> >scheduled for the evening of Monday November 18. Changes include:
> >
> > * dsgrep will use egrep-style regexps, as it is documented to.
> >
> > * GConf has been modified to work better in our environment; this
> > allows nautilus sessions on two separate machines to work.
> >
> > * The local-netscape script will work independently of the caller's
> > umask.
> >
> > * A crash bug has been fixed in evolution.
> >
> > * A crash bug has been fixed in gdk-pixbuf's bmp renderer.
> >
> > * A crash bug has been fixed in grecord.
> >
> > * A configuration bug has been fixed in the Evolution and Nautilus
> > handling of sound files through grecord.
> >
> > * An unused and problematic OpenAFS rx protocol feature has been
> > removed.
> >
> > * Two OpenAFS server crash bugs have been fixed.
> >
> > * pine should be able to display URLs now.
> >
> > * All but two xscreensaver modules (coral and cynosure) have been
> > disabled by default, to resolve issues with the screensaver
> > freezing the X server on Solaris.
> >
> > * kpasswd (and by extension passwd) will use the krb5
> > password-changing protocol.
> >
> > * krb5 kpasswd
> >
> > * lprng and empty PRINTER
> >
> > * On Linux, the initial CellServDB has been updated, saving a
> > timeout during installs.
> >
> > * On Linux, the cpp, gcc, glibc, kernel, libstdc++, modutils, and
> > xinetd RPMs will be updated to keep current with Red Hat 7.3.
> >
> > * On Solaris, a crash bug has been fixed in OpenAFS.
> >
> >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.
>
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