[3932] in Release_7.7_team
Status of Linux 9.2 public release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Jul 16 06:07:41 2003
Message-Id: <200307161007.h6GA7di3027273@bart-savagewood.mit.edu>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:07:39 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
The public release of 9.2 for Linux tonight was less eventful than the
Solaris release. I updated the hesiod for the public-linux cluster two
hours earlier than last night to compensate for expected congestion on
the w20 subnet, which seems to have worked well; by 5am, it appeared
that everything that was going to update on its own had finished doing
so The mrtg graphs for that period indicate that we didn't push as much
data as last night, and while w20-575a-rep-7 did bounce on the NOC
during the update period, the network appeared less congested than
during the Solaris update.
One wart I noticed is that there approximately 8 Linux machines that
updated successfully but were unable to start X following the update due
to a syntax error in their XF86Config. I settled on this procedure for
fixing them:
# login as root
rm /etc/X11/X
rm /etc/X11/XF86Config
redhat-config-xfree86
# select 1280x1024 and "millions of colors", click OK.
which brought up a useful xlogin. I have a copy of a sample XF86Config
and error output from attempting to start X, which I'll send to Andrew
under seperate cover. The common link between these machines appears to
be that they were installed at 8.4, and their XF86Config was an XFree86
3.3.x config file that doesn't parse under 4.3.0.
Garry
