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RE: Ubuntu Update Stalls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Guy)
Wed Feb 2 10:58:35 2011
From: John T Guy <jtguy@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, Thomas Smith <tjsmith@mit.edu>
CC: Chuck King <chuckk@mit.edu>,
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:58:28 -0500
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Folks;
Just a heads up. We have experienced this problem in W20 and 12-182 and now 56-129. I've
had net-ops check the network in 12-182 where the problem started and it checked out OK.
There are still log in problems there. Also I've noticed that there are different version(.25 to .28) of the top
most option of the recovery we're using, does this make a different??
Hope this sheds some more light on the situation.
Cheers
John T Guy
IT Deployment & Maintenance Services
Information Services and Technology
Installation/Spaces/Athena Clusters/ITDM (acis-team@mit.edu)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tel: 617-258-8032
Email: jtguy@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed [jdreed@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:38 AM
To: Thomas Smith
Cc: Chuck King; John T Guy; release-team@MIT.EDU Release Team
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Update Stalls
Do you have a sense for how often this happens? It definitely seems like the fix is working on some machines. When this problem occurs, is it ok after rebooting it? Or is the machine now permanently broken?
-Jon
On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Thomas Smith wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am hitting a snag with these Ubuntu updates which is delaying
> the
> process.
>
> Each day after completing the process a student will try to log
> on to a
> updated machine and it will not be able to log on.
>
> Keep in mind this seems to be random.
>
> So, I tested one myself to see what error message occurred.
> There were several.
>
> Initially the message states:
>
> Could not update ICEauthority file/mit/username/.ICEauthority
>
> When you close this message the following appears:
> Nautilus could not create permissions folder.
>
> When you close this message the following appears:
> There is a problem with the configuration server.
>
> Then, the screen just goes blank.
> So you have to reboot to log off/out.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tommy
>
>
> Thomas J. Smith
> Athena Team
> Ditr ddm-team@mit.edu
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
