[7350] in Release_7.7_team
Update retrospective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Feb 23 12:21:15 2011
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:21:08 -0500
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So, I spent all morning visiting the straggling machines and learned the following:
- For at least two machines that had already been fixed and taken the 1.20 auto-update, bind9 had failed to start. A reboot solved it, but still.
- If the versioned linux-image-generic fails its postinst, the machine ends up without afs, because even an "aptitude install" does not kick openafs-modules-generic hard enough. An "apt-get -f install openafs-modules" did work, though I could have sworn it didn't in the past. I think that dkms will fix this, but still.
- One machine failed to reboot (after an auto update) because when shutting down, one of the many cluster schroots failed to unmount, and it just sat there. I'd never seen that before.
- I don't get my temporary xterm with ~/.xsession-errors in it when logging into a quickstation.
- A prof prepping for class in 3-133 told me they always power off the workstation, because it makes loud noises in the middle of lecture. Further discussion revealed that this was the stupid jet-engine noise the Optiplexes make when you use too much CPU. Like, say, installing debathena-tex-config. It's possible we should consider a different update schedule for the lectern machines.
We can discuss these at release-team, but I figured I'd share it now.
