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Re: Debathena Ubuntu 12.04.5 machines did not take most recent update properly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Myron Freeman)
Wed Feb 4 11:08:20 2015
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From: Myron Freeman <fletch1@eecs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1502041059160.27145@infinite-loop.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 11:08:11 -0500
Cc: Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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I was first made aware of the problem yesterday afternoon but didn’t have time to look at things more closely until now.
-Fletch
> On Feb 4, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Fletch,
>
> Following up on this, when did this failure occur? There was apparently a know problem with OpenAFS and the latest Precise update kernel, but a new version of OpenAFS was released to the OpenAFS PPA on Friday, so if the failure occurred prior to that date, a simple "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" should fix the problem.
>
> Unfortunately, Ubuntu's LTS solution of backporting the current kernel (from 14.04) to the previous LTS often results in problems like this. We don't really have a good solution at this point, beyond encouraging people to upgrade to the newest LTS as soon as it's available.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Jonathan Reed wrote:
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>> Hi Fletch,
>>
>> Are these debathena-cluster or debathena-workstation? We'd be interested in seeing the /var/log/athena-update.log files from them (either via athinfo, if you have the hostnames, or the files as is).
>>
>> The auto-update procedure is basically just "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" with some sanity checking. The most common way to recover from failed updates is "apt-get -f install" and "dpkg --configure -a", often multiple times.
>>
>> If none of those options work, we'll definitely need some hostnames to take a look at.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Myron Freeman wrote:
>>
>>> Hello folks.
>>> I am discovering that a bunch of Debathena Ubuntu 12.04.5 machines didn’t take the most recent update properly. They all appear to have failed to update AFS correctly.
>>> Is there anything that I can do to force a proper (hopefully working :-) ) update?
>>> -Fletch
