[51695] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Athanasius not taking 8.4 (Case 182504)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Aug 14 23:45:49 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:45:45 -0400
Message-Id: <200008150345.XAA08524@stratton-three-o-six.mit.edu>
To: "David J. Hogarth" <davidh@MIT.EDU>, Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, davidh@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[51688] in Hotline Meeting"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Not that I work for hotline, but my best guess is that your machine
isn't updating beacuse you aren't logging out at night. (The update
requires a reboot, so a machine will only do it when no one is logged
in.) As for why it didn't go to 8.4 when you updated it by hand, my
best guess is that you didn't first attach the new system packs (you
need to do this when you update to a new full athena release by hand.)
You can run the following commands as root to attach the new packs:
detach -a
attach -O athena-sun4sys-84
and then run: /srvd/update_ws to actually take the update. However,
since a full update takes a while, you may be better off just logging
out overnight and seeing if your machine takes the update by itself.
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.)
Bill failed to mention that the / and /usr partitions are where this
problem will occur. /you need 35M free on the /usr partition to take
8.4.
2. The name of the update program changed and the compatibilty name
that SHOULD allow users experienced with it failed.
There was a brief problem like this, but it was caught in a code audit
even before 8.4 went into the earliest stages of testing, and it was
an edge case anyway. I'm sure this isn't the issue.
Hope that helps.
--
Jonathon
