[3334] in Hotline Meeting
Re: AFS problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Tue Jan 29 16:09:44 1991
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 16:09:24 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: ackerman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, op@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@mit.edu
Strike what I said about sending us the console error messages - I see
you did that in a later mail message (which I had read too quickly).
It looks like the problem you had the first time you sent mail to
Hotline was the result of a wide-spread power outage. The continuing
problem is likely either because the workstation hasn't rebooted in a
long time, or it's at version 6.4.* I believe the first really
supported Release of Athena for the DECstation was 7.1. (I'm pretty
sure we never had a version 7.0.)
The version 6.4 system should be updated to 7.1 or 7.2. Niether
Journeyman nor XV acts like a 7.1 (or later) DECstation from what I
can see across the net, so the other one should probably have it's
version checked, as well.
* Some technical details:
The "Lost contact with server" error gave the address 18.71.0.37
(which is Minos). That host now has nothing to do with accessing the
x11r4 locker, and hasn't for about a month. A workstation that hasn't
deactivated and rebooted in the past month would still think it had to
go through Minos for the x11r4 locker. To know the new point of
contact (primary server) the machine would have to copy in a new copy
of /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB (which happens during deactivation) and
then reboot. Even with a deactivation and reboot, the 6.4 release for
the DECstation didn't update CellServDB properly, so a DECstation
shouldn't be left running that release, in any case.
The reason I suspect both XV and Journeyman are version 6.4 is that
niether gives a complete response to snmp quieries. (Niether one has
the full, current set of variables.) Running the snmp client program
/mit/net-tools/@sys/hostcheck with the arguments "xv" and "journeyman"
yields little or no information, while giving it the argument "hodge"
gets the full set of variables we're used to. Journeyman and XV are
old enough that we can't tell from here how old they are...
