[18129] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux update problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Aug 10 17:18:28 2000
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:18:23 -0400
Message-Id: <200008102118.RAA05204@d-140-142-110-125.dhcp2.washington.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18069] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> My linux machine's console was hung after an aborted attempt to
> update to 8.4.8. The update failed because mkserv was not found
> (already fixed by Greg's patch yesterday).
>
> From a quick glance at the update_ws script, perhaps it should do
> the mkserv updatetest before shutting down dm.
>
> Also, there were several "console pty: Interrupted system call"
> messages on the console, so dm probably needs to ignore EINTR.
Greg submitted patches for these. I beleive they've even been
deployed in the latest patch release. I'm going to close this report
now.
--
Jonathon
