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Re: Case 223516: This case has recently been updated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Sheehan)
Fri Jul 20 09:53:46 2001
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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:53:44 -0400
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From: Daniel Sheehan <dsheehan@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Bob,
I would appreciate if you could come over and reinstall the software
and check the drive. There are nice things on the /var/local disk that
I'd prefer to keep, if possible.
Machine is gadus.mit.edu (18.152.1.66) and is in N42-250a.
Thanks,
Daniel
At 09:46 AM 7/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Case 223516 has recently been updated and stands as follows.
>Please retain the case number in the subject line for future replies
>connected with this case.
>
>Most recent entry
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>(Comment [07/20/2001 09:46:22 by bobsand])
>
>"wrong magic number" is a hard drive error. also the software looks like
>it may have been corrupted. I can
>come over and reinstall software and or replace the
>hard drive. Do you or anyone else have anything of any
>consequence saved on that hard drive ?
>
>Bob
>
>p.s. where is this system ? And what is the name ?
>
>Case History
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>
>Email Received [07/20/2001 09:40:51 by daemon]
>
>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:40:48 -0400
>To: hotline@MIT.EDU
>From: Daniel Sheehan <dsheehan@MIT.EDU>
>Cc:
>Subject: problem with Athena update to v9
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I mistakenly had auto update set to false on my private Athena
>workstation (gadus.mit.edu). I set it to true last evening and the
>update from (I believe 8.4.8) started and apparently failed. The
>machine is at the "ok" prompt. Here is the sequence of errors
>at boot time (the Sun decal is still visible):
>
>WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0 (dad0):
> corrupt label - wrong magic number
>
>obpsym: symbolic dumping is available.
>panic[cpu0]/thread=10404000: mod_hold_stub: Couldn't load stub module
>misc/strpl
>umb
>Type 'go' to resume
>ok
>
>I left the machine as is. Do you have advice?
>
>Daniel
