[8597] in athena10
Re: Fixing Debathena Install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Sat Oct 22 20:39:24 2011
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:39:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Miguel Flores <mflores@MIT.EDU>
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Miguel Flores wrote:
> Hello Again,
>
> Thanks for the help but unfortunately it did not work. Those lines were
> uncommented. and I tried the update as well but with no success.
>
> I may have done a few other things that messed it up too. I was trying to
> see if I could install a way to access my CSAIL files through my computer
> like I do with my AFS locker. So that could have also very well messed it
> up too, because I think it may have changed the openafs modules. Do you
> know of any way to recover from that?
Dear Miguel,
With your machine already in a probably-corrupt state due to the failed
upgrade, it would probably be pretty painful to recover.
The best I could come up with would be to try and look at the apt{,itude}
logs to attempt to see what exactly was or was not done during the course
of the transaction, and deduce what went wrong from there. But that would
be very time consuming and unfeasible to do via email.
-Ben Kaduk
