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workstation won't reboot properly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christine Moulen)
Tue Apr 28 10:14:59 1998
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:14:28 -0400
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: Christine Moulen <orbitee@MIT.EDU>
I have a private athena workstation on my desk. I tried to reboot it
yesterday morning, and something isn't working right. It's become stuck in
a cycle of reboots. I stopped it with Stop-A and booted into single user
mode. That worked, but I don't know how to fix the problem.
Possibly related information:
I've been periodically seeing a message:
This system is in the middle of an update. Please contact Athena
Operations at x3-1410. Thank you.
-Athena Operations
I checked out the web page on maintaining private athena workstations before
calling you, and it suggested:
To circumvent this problem, load the /etc/athena/version file into an editor
(such as Emacs) and delete the last line.
Then re-run the update, and watch carefully for errors.
I was not able to re-run the update because the system packs were not
attached and I have not been able to find out how to do that.
This was on Friday. I tried to simply reboot yesterday, and it got stuck.
The hostname of the workstation is: guru.mit.edu
Location: 14-0615
Model: Sun Sparcstation 5
MIT tag #'s: 0293405/6
Thanks,
Christine Moulen
Library Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, 14-0615
617-253-0757, fax 617-253-8894
orbitee@mit.edu
