[44242] in Hotline Meeting
case 115782
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John J Morey)
Thu Jul 23 08:23:34 1998
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:23:29 EDT
From: John J Morey <jjmorey@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: test-sgi hosed
> I was in the w20 cluster and noticed that test-sgi had a panic
message
> on its screen, so I rebooted it. Wehn it came up it was in a really
> weird state (possibly booted off of the miniroot for the update?)
>
> Bob, do you want to look at it before cluster re-installs, or are we
> assuming taht all bets are off if the machien panicks during an
> update?
>
> I left the machine powered off, but was too lazy to put a sign on it.
Well, the update doesn't attempt to recover from a mid-update crash,
but
I took a look at the machine anyway; it was powered up, and had
panicked
again (SIMM error). I rebooted it, and it was indeed booting off of
the
miniroot for update. (It came up successfully in the miniroot, but it
failed to restart the update, since the target root filesystem was
dirty).
I left it powered off, with a sign saying "SIMM Error".
Bob
- --- Entry: Wednesday, Jul 08, 1998 4:23 PM -- cpontier ---
Even after swapping out all the SIMMs it did the same thing. I'de say
it's a hard drive. I didn't bring one with me.
- --- Entry: Wednesday, Jul 08, 1998 5:03 PM -- cpontier ---
Needs a hard drive and I will get to that tomorrow.
- --- Entry: Thursday, Jul 09, 1998 2:01 PM -- cpontier ---
I tried a new hard drive and that wasn't the case.
- --- Entry: Thursday, Jul 23, 1998 8:21 AM -- jjmorey ---
just updated the summary
- --- Entry: Thursday, Jul 23, 1998 8:22 AM -- jjmorey ---
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note already exists in hotline will attach this to it JJ
