[36756] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Athena updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Feb 5 02:01:40 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:01:36 -0500 (EST)
To: jjmorey@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[36693] in Hotline Meeting"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
The problem here is that the machine is stuck in the middle of an
update. (The console window should tell you this if you look.) You
can confirm that this is the problem by looking at the last line of
/etc/athena/version and noting that it says "Version Update" rather
than something like "Version 7.7Y" (you can also determine it remotely
by doing "add net-tools; hostcheck machine").
You can try to solve the problem by logging in as root and removing
the last line of /etc/athena/version with your favorite editor. If
the machine isn't too screwed up, then you should be able to just log
out and let it take the update all by itself. (which should happen the
next time it reactivates.) Alternately, rebooting the machine (by
typing reboot as root) should cause it to take the update when it
boots. This assumes the machine isn't too screwed up, but the chances
of that are pretty good.
In this particular case I believe that the problem was caused by
someone control-C ing mkserv, so the customer may want to look at
/var/server/.services to make sure the right mkserv services are
listed.
--
Jonathon
