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Re: [mav@techsquare.com: host rabelais failed twice with Athena 9.4 update]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Sep 20 23:02:53 2005
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:02:44 -0400
To: m_v@mit.edu
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I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by this bad behavior.
The symptoms you describe sound like a somewhat rare RPM problem we've
been trying unsuccessfully to get Red Hat to look into for some time,
but that may be merely a superficial resemblance.
I was going to suggest that you got bit by two different problems: 1.
The rare RPM problem (whose remedy is a re-install) followed by 2. A
system hangup that causes systems to hang rather than completing a
graceful shutdown and reboot (like one would do to finish an update).
But you're saying that the network driver is missing.
How old is your system? I wonder if the network card got de-supported
in RHEL 4, and that funky things happened across the update to RHEL 4
as part of the Athena 9.4 update.
Perhaps I can prevail upon someone to trek out to your system and do
some more careful diagnosis. (I could try doing so myself, but I've not
got the deep Linux clue these days that is often necessary in these
cases.)
-wdc
"Like my father before me, I shall remain 5 years old till the day I
die!"
On Sep 19, 2005, at 2:04 PM, m_v@MIT.EDU wrote:
>
> I saw the recent announcement for Athena 9.4.16 patch release. Will
> contain a fix for the problem I sent email about earlier today?
>
> General history: last week after the host rebalais.mit.edu upgraded to
> 9.4 hung, lots of files were missing and gnome-session was unable to
> start because of CORBA issues. The RPM database was inconsistent with
> reality, but even a force install of many missing rpms didn't fix the
> host. I reinstalled it on Friday and it was messed up again by
> Sunday. It was booted into an 'athena-linux' kernel which didn't have
> network driver. Lots of settings got reset as well.
>
> thanks,
> michael
>
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:29:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Michael A Vezza <mav@techsquare.com>
> To: wdc@mit.edu, ops@mit.edu
> Cc: cbcl-admin@techsquare.com, serre@mit.edu
> Subject: host rabelais failed twice with Athena 9.4 update
>
>
>
> Hi wdc & ops,
>
> We reinstalled the host rabelais.mit.edu last week after it failed to
> complete the Athena 9.4 update and became unusable. It failed again
> over the weekend and messed up a lot of stuff on the host.
>
> I just got off the phone with Lou at IS&T and he indicated that there
> may be an update coming out soon to fix an issue some x86 hosts are
> having with 9.4 update?
>
> Anway, is the fix coming out tonight, or should we make sure it
> doesn't try to update again.
>
> thanks,
> michael
> for cbcl-admin@techsquare.com
> ------- End of forwarded message -------
