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Re: Solaris 8.0 Mystery Deepens
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Aug 18 02:40:12 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mike Barker" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: miki@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU, ops@MIT.EDU, jis@MIT.EDU,
tom@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Aug 1996 23:31:04 EDT."
<199608170331.XAA06516@megara.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 02:40:05 EDT
> update Aug. 14 8:14
> 8.0I Aug. 14 8:31
>
> (all entries were Workstation, not server - so no mkserv had been run)
>
> ls -ld on the empty /kernel showed Aug. 14, 12:14
>
> I think this indicates that the update completed and the system ran for
> nearly 4 hours before losing.
Um, if I recall correctly, Greg shifted the running of mkserv (yes I
know mkserv wasn't run, keep reading) before the update of the kernel
in the release process. Unless I'm very confused, mkserv requires
that the last line in /etc/athena/version not be a "version update"
line. This means that /etc/athena/version must be updated before the
kernel is tracked in. Greg, does this all sound right to you?
Certainly the amount of time that normally elapses here isn't 4 hours,
but it seems possible that something that could extend this period
(like maybe a network problem?)
Jonathon
