[18725] in Athena Bugs
Re: Error messages during last update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jan 31 14:19:41 2001
Message-Id: <200101311919.OAA02796@equal-rites.mit.edu>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:33:54 EST."
<200101311433.JAA01507@rar.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:19:38 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi. Thanks for the nice complete report.
> WARNING:
> The / filesystem has 142 free blocks. The current installation requires
> 216 blocks, which includes a required 150 block buffer for open deleted
> files. 74 more blocks are needed.
This is the relevant part of the log. According to athinfo, your
machine has a 28MB root partition (because it was installed back in
1996 when our partition tables weren't quite as forward-thinking as
they are now) and it's almost full.
For now, you should be fine (netscape problems aside); the patches
your machine couldn't take aren't terrible crucial. But in the medium
term, this problem isn't going to go away without a reinstall, which I
assume will be a bit traumatic. Certainly, you won't be able to take
the Athena 9.0 update this summer without a reinstall.
From another message:
> Thanks. I found the problem with the preferences. Somehow, the
> owner was root. All fixed now.
I hope the release didn't have anything to do with that. As far as I
know, it doesn't come anywhere near /var/local/rar.
> This release also broke my APC Powerchute monitoring and I had to
> reinstall that for the first time in many years. When it rains, it
> pours.
I'm curious why that is. I've heard that the Powerchute install
touches /etc/rc0, which is why the old update system used to trash it.
But none of the Sun patches in the 8.4.15 -> 8.4.19 upgrade should
touch that.
If you send me the Powerchute install script, I can try to make an
intelligent guess as to why the Athena release might interfere with
it, although I can't promise anything.
