[2423] in Release_Engineering
7.1 is ready
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Mon Jul 23 19:28:31 1990
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 90 19:27:05 -0400
To: /dev/test@MIT.EDU
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: /dev/null@MIT.EDU
If you are a "friendly-tester", you can get the latest and greatest
now...
To determine if you are a "friendly-tester", type:
hesinfo `hostname` cluster
If the line:
syslib e40test-sys-71
appears in the data returned, then you are on a "friendly-test" machine
and can update it to 7.1, if you desire (we encourage this, and will be
more strongly encouraging it in a day or so - ie. forcing 7.1 packs on
you).
NOTE: There will be some outage of the packs tomorrow (July 24th) as we
migrate one of the drives from AENEAS to DOT. The outage will occur
around noon tomorrow and should last about forty-five minutes. This
re-arrangement will enable us to do smoothe "vos release" operations
without disrupting your pack service during the rest of the test period.
To update your machine:
1) Let the machine deactivate.
2) Hit CTRL-P at the "Hit any key to start" prompt, and
login as "root". The default root password is "mrroot".
3) Type:
/bin/athena/attach -h -n e40test-sys-71
/etc/shutdown now
4) It will take about 30 seconds for the machine to shutdown. After
30 seconds, you will see a warning message of the form:
WARNING: Something is hung (wont die); ps axl advised
Ignore it.
You should now see a # prompt. Press <RETURN> and make sure a
new # prompt appears on the next line. If it appears on the
same line, typing
/usr/ucb/reset (which will not appear in this situation)
will correct the problem. This problem has been most evident
if you force a shutdown from an activated state, with X running
(ie. not following the directions in step 1).
5) Type:
/srvd/update_ws
This may ask you to press <RETURN> or prompt you for other information.
The prompts should be intelligible (you've no doubt gone through all
these questions during previous updates; there's nothing new to this
this update).
6) After the update says it has updated the version number and another
# prompt has appeared, type:
/etc/reboot -q
That's all folks!
If you have any problems with updating a friendly test machine, contact
Release Engineering.
If you have encounter any problems with the release, send the bug
reports to <testers@athena.mit.edu>
Enjoy!
