[33872] in Hotline Meeting
Release 8 Problem on Sun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Jun 20 16:50:58 1996
From: "Mike Barker" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: mbarker@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:50:39 EDT
We have a problem. In checking Phyllis Galt's system, we noticed that
it wasn't dealing at all well with the packs. Further checking showed
something like:
athena% head /etc/athena/rc.conf
#!/bin/sh -
#
# $Id: rc.conf,v 1.4 1994/07/01 15:36:17 vrt Exp $
# Set up configuration variables.
MACHINE=SUN4; export MACHINE # Type of machine
HOST=; export host # name of machine
ADDR=; export ADDR # address of machine
PUBLIC=true; export PUBLIC # Public workstation?
You may notice that this is missing the hostname, host address, and
the "export HOST" entry is incorrect (lowercase host).
After fixing Phyllis's machine, we walked over to M37-312. Three
machines (of the 15 in early test) were broken in this way. One was
happily sitting at 7.7X, others were unable to start X.
To Fix:
head /etc/athena/rc.conf to check for the problem.
get the hostname and host address. (more /etc/hosts, hostinfo)
as root, edit /etc/athena/rc.conf
reboot.
So we have a "short-term" fix for early machines that are broken in
this way.
Longer term--we need a "quick hack" to query the snmpd on the sun
classics and check whether they have this problem in their rc.conf.
If there are a few machines, they can be hand-repaired. If there are
many machines with this problem, we may have to be more inventive.
The Other Fix: As far as I can tell, if you reinstall a machine that
is broken this way, it will be fixed.
Thanks all!
Mike
