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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 16:03:08 2015
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From: Myron Freeman <fletch1@eecs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1502041154420.27720@infinite-loop.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:02:54 -0500
Cc: Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Thanks! It looks like this is working out for me.
-Fletch
> On Feb 4, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> Hi Fletch,
>
> Turns out the news is ... somewhat good. The problem appears to be that these workstations don't have the OpenAFS PPA, and are using the stock upstream OpenAFS packages. For workstations installed at 12.04.2 or later, OpenAFS broke years ago (because Ubuntu disagrees with us about the definition of "stability" for LTS releases). Starting in September 2013, we switched to using the PPA, maintained by members of the OpenAFS team.
>
> Anyway, the fix should be as simple as the following commands, but unfortunately they'll need to be run on each workstation:
>
> add-apt-repository -y ppa:openafs/stable
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>
> (In the unlikely event that the "add-apt-repository" command is not installed, that command is part of the "python-software-properties" package)
>
> -Jon
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Myron Freeman wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>
