[56585] in Hotline Meeting
Re: More machine troubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carter Snowden)
Tue Sep 25 13:01:56 2001
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To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:01:54 -0400
From: Carter Snowden <csnowden@MIT.EDU>
The xsession and track problems are known and fixed in the next release, which
will be out next Monday.
The krb5.conf problem is not so clear.
In order to ensure that that a bug report also gets generated, please send
email to bug@mit.edu, mentioning hostnames and approximate times that you ran
into the problem.
Thanks,
Carter Snowden
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> The Sun Ultra 5 workstation m4-231-1 won't let me log in, saying it
> can't find krb5.conf. I've seen this error occur on at least three
> machines recently. The usual cure seems to be a reinstall. However,
> today it happened just as I was planning on using a machine to give
> a lecture in the room. Fortunately, I was able to get around the
> machine's problems by using a PC with an X server and SecureCRT
> to login elsewhere. However, I did lose about 20 minutes of class
> time to this technology failure. What's going on? These problems
> must have some cause.
>
> All in 1-115, I saw these problems with the Sun Ultra 10's in the room:
>
> m1-115-4
> Many messages on the console saying that it can't find
> /usr/etc/athena/track. Then, logins fail with the now familiar
> failure to find xsession or krb5.conf.
>
> m1-115-13
> The display was faulty (partially displayed bitmaps, etc.). The
> machine was shut down gracefully but wouldn't reboot. I powered
> it off the hard way.
>
> m1-115-17
> This machine emitted a high-pitched tone when first booting, but
> fortunately this went away after a couple of minutes. Now it
> seems fine.
>
> In 1-390, the Sun Ultra 10 in there (m1-390-1) won't boot, and it
> emitted a piercing high-pitched sound when I powered it on.
>
> Tom
