[51688] in Hotline Meeting
Athanasius not taking 8.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Hogarth)
Mon Aug 14 15:36:59 2000
Message-Id: <200008141936.PAA01471@athanasius.mit.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:36:27 -0400
From: "David J. Hogarth" <davidh@MIT.EDU>
Folks, I write at the behest of Bill Cattey. I'm normally on the early tester
group for new versions of Athena. However, I noticed last week that I had not
been automatically upgraded. I then logged as root, and executed the command
for taking the upgrade. It chugged away for some time. When I logged back in,
still 8.3. Now what? Any help will be appreciated.
BTW, athanasius is on a Sparc 5, 166 mhz; I'm using only 3 megs of local space.
DavidH
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:48:36 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: davidh@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Is Athanasius too old?
A 170MHz Sparc 5 is still fully supported at Athena 8.4.
I see that the cluster information is correct for it.
The only reasons I can think of for why it would not update:
1. There are files on the local disk that are sucking up space such
that the system fails the "enough free disk space" test. This could be
because some files were forgotten about, or because one day in 1998 an
attempted break in killed named and left a core dump. (That happened to me.)
2. The name of the update program changed and the compatibilty name
that SHOULD allow users experienced with it failed.
3. Some subtle misunderstanding has crept into your idea of how to update.
I strongly suspect that if you called hotline, and said that your system
is, for reasons you cannot fathom, not updating, they would be able to
come in and update it to 8.4, or to re-install Athena at the 8.4 version
level.
QUESTION: Are there files you are keeping on your local disk?
- -wdc
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