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Re: Debathena Ubuntu 12.04.5 machines did not take most recent update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Feb 4 11:01:51 2015
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 11:01:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
To: Myron Freeman <fletch1@eecs.mit.edu>
cc: Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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Hi Fletch,
Following up on this, when did this failure occur? There was apparently a=
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know problem with OpenAFS and the latest Precise update kernel, but a new=
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version of OpenAFS was released to the OpenAFS PPA on Friday, so if the=20
failure occurred prior to that date, a simple "apt-get update; apt-get=20
dist-upgrade" should fix the problem.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu's LTS solution of backporting the current kernel=20
(from 14.04) to the previous LTS often results in problems like this. We=
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don't really have a good solution at this point, beyond encouraging people=
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to upgrade to the newest LTS as soon as it's available.
-Jon
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Hi Fletch,
>
> Are these debathena-cluster or debathena-workstation? We'd be interested=
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> seeing the /var/log/athena-update.log files from them (either via athinfo=
, if=20
> you have the hostnames, or the files as is).
>
> The auto-update procedure is basically just "apt-get update; apt-get=20
> dist-upgrade" with some sanity checking. The most common way to recover =
from=20
> failed updates is "apt-get -f install" and "dpkg --configure -a", often=
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> multiple times.
>
> If none of those options work, we'll definitely need some hostnames to ta=
ke a=20
> look at.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Myron Freeman wrote:
>
>> Hello folks.
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>> I am discovering that a bunch of Debathena Ubuntu 12.04.5 machines didn=
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>> take the most recent update properly. They all appear to have failed to=
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>> update AFS correctly.
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>> Is there anything that I can do to force a proper (hopefully working :-)=
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>> update?
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>> -Fletch
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