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Re: Fwd: Athena workstation update issues potentially affecting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Pendleton)
Tue Dec 20 16:39:47 2005
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From: Mark Pendleton <wendell@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
Any chance of getting these machines operational again.
Mark
Hi Garry,
EAPS has four old unsupported Sun Ultra 5's in 54-311 that are down
due to the Athena 9.4 for Solaris update. Is it possible to reinstall
9.3 to get them working? Another option may be that if EAPS purchases
more memory for each machine could we then reinstall Athena 9.4 for
Solaris? I could buy four 256 DIMMS and reuse the existing 128 DIMMS.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Mark
>Hi Mark:
>
>The computers, JUPITER.MIT.EDU and SATURN.MIT.EDU, are in EAPS
>Athena cluster (54-311). Since MIT won't support them any more,
>could you please let me know what we should do with them?
>
>Thanks,
>Yunpeng
>
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>>Subject: Athena workstation update issues potentially affecting you
>>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:44:12 -0400
>>From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
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>>You are receiving this message because you are listed as the contact for
>>the following Athena workstations:
>>
>>JUPITER.MIT.EDU
>>SATURN.MIT.EDU
>>
>>We suspect these machines may be affected by a problem with the recent
>>public release of Athena 9.4 for Solaris. That release failed on older
>>Sun Ultra-5 and Ultra-10 machines which have only 128 MB of memory; the
>>lack of sufficient memory caused the update procedure to crash, leaving
>>the machine in an unusable state, from which the only feasible repair is
>>to reinstall. While we no longer support the Sun Ultra-5/10 platform,
>>and these machines should be replaced or retired, we clearly should have
>>been more careful about releasing an update which failed in this way.
>>
>>If you are indeed the proper contact for any of the machines
>>listed below, please check the machine's state. The 9.4 update
>>failure state is characterized by the Athena X login screen not
>>appearing, and a console login failing with the error message:
>>
>>ld.so.1: /usr/bin/login: fatal: libzephyr.so.3: open failed: No
>>such file or directory
>>Unable to start X, doing console login instead.
>>
>>If the machine does appear to have failed to update to 9.4, please
>>contact Hotline (x3-1410) for assistance in repairing (reinstalling) the
>>machine. However, please note again that these machines are no longer
>>supported, and should be replaced as soon as it is feasible to do so.
>>
>>Note that we have moved these machines into a special "no update"
>>cluster, so that they will not try to update to Athena 9.4 again after
>>they are reinstalled and running 9.3. In addition, the update procedure
>>itself now has a check requiring the machine to have at least 256 MB of
>>memory before beginning the update to 9.4.
>>
>>We deeply regret this inconvenience; we will strive to improve our
>>procedures to avoid such problems in the future.
>>
>>Garry Zacheiss
>>Athena Release Team
>>MIT Information Services & Technology
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