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Re: Ubuntu Update Stalls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Feb 2 11:08:01 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:07:54 -0500
Cc: Chuck King <chuckk@mit.edu>, John T Guy <jtguy@mit.edu>,
"release-team@MIT.EDU Release Team" <release-team@mit.edu>
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To: Thomas Smith <tjsmith@mit.edu>
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OK, I'm not sure what's going on here. I can take a look, for now you can just kick off a re-install on the broken machines.
-Jon
On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Thomas Smith wrote:
> hi jon, it is happening at each cluster,and the amount seems to
> vary.Still,happens after rebooting.
>
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> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:38 -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> 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
>>
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