[1103] in athena10
[Fwd: Athena 10 will require an Ubuntu work-around on our 745s.]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Feb 10 13:39:31 2009
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:40:01 -0500
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This was mentioned at Release Team today.
We need to put this into Athena 10, at least for clusters.
-Bill
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
Subject: Athena 10 will require an Ubuntu work-around on our 745s.
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:50:59 -0400
Alex Prengel showed me how the 745 he is testing with hangs instead
of reboots
when he tried to do Athena 10 with it. This is apparently a known bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/
115011
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/
115906
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/
114854
The root cause is apparently some systems don't allow the new-fangled
reboot
method used by default in Ubuntu see:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/5/59
The work-around is sometimes:
add "reboot=b" to the kernel command line in grub.
and other times
remove the -i flag from the /etc/init.d/reboot and /etc/init.d/halt
scripts
-Bill
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