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Athena 8.0 Early Test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (release-team@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jun 17 16:59:47 1996
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:59:34 -0400
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: release-team@MIT.EDU
The general release of Athena Release 8.0 will be available for Sun
workstations in the early cluster on Wednesday, July 19th. This round of
testing will hereafter be refered to as "early test". Release 8.0
supports Suns and SGIs only; SGIs will be updating to Release 8.0 later
this summer.
If your Sun is configured to update automatically and you log out when
you leave on Tuesday, it will update to 8.0 by the time you return on
Wednesday morning. Your workstation is configured to update automatically
if the variable AUTOUPDATE is set to true in /etc/athena/rc.conf:
athena% grep AUTO /etc/athena/rc.conf
AUTOUPDATE=true; export AUTOUPDATE # Automatically update?
The following machine(s) are in the early cluster, and will be ready to
update on the 18th:
m37-312-21
m37-312-22
m37-312-23
m37-312-24
m37-312-25
m37-312-26
m37-312-27
m37-312-28
m37-312-29
m37-312-31
m37-312-32
m37-312-33
m37-312-34
m37-312-35
m37-312-36
w20-575-1
I. Reporting Bugs
Report problems in the new release using sendbug.
II. Questions
If you have questions about taking the new release, send them
to the release team (release-team@mit).
III. Release Changes
The following features are included in this release:
Solaris
* Solaris 2.4 with AFS 3.4a
* Emacs 19.30 is the default
* Emacs 18 is available as a separate command
* /usr/athena/bin/cc now points to sun cc
* Transcript 4.1
* MIME support has been built into MH but is turned off in
the default environment.
IV. How to tell if your workstation updated.
If your workstation updated properly, the last line in
/etc/athena/version should indicate release 8.0:
athena% tail -1 /etc/athena/version
Athena Server (SUN4m) Version 8.0A Mon Apr 22 20:02:37 1996
(Your workstation will say 8.0B.)
V. Updating a workstation manually
1) Login as root on the console.
On a Sun:
Shutdown X, by hitting CTRL-P on the machine. Then login as
"root" (the default password is "drroot", but I really hope
that your root password is different).
2) Shutdown timesharing
Sun users
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Type:
/bin/athena/detach -h -n -a
/bin/athena/attach -h -n early-sun24sys
3) Type:
/srvd/update_ws reactivate
This may ask you to press <RETURN> or prompt you for other
information. The prompts should be intelligible (you've no doubt
gone through all these questions during previous updates; there's
nothing radically new in this update).
4) After the update says it has updated the version number and
another # prompt has appeared, type:
/etc/reboot
Sun users
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During the reboot process you may see several error messages,
all of which can be ignored. They include the following:
dm: X failed to be come ready
Unable to start X, doing console login instead
Also, the /usr file system does not fsck cleanly.
