[18967] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena 9.0 (current almost-beta) install bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michal N Lusztig)
Fri May 18 12:35:33 2001
Message-Id: <200105181635.MAA02743@kangi.mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 May 2001 23:12:01 EDT."
<200105180312.XAA06426@dale.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:35:28 -0400
From: Michal N Lusztig <miki@MIT.EDU>
>> The problem was that /sbin/athenainstall (called from /sbin/startup,
>> which is run by init) was failing to populate /etc/myIPaddr when this
>> code was run:
>>
>> /sbin/hostinfo $hostname | grep 18 | awk '{print $3}' >/etc/myIPaddr
>> This was because named wasn't running, so hostinfo wasn't able to
>> resolve the hostname. The line above is also *wrong* because it assumes
>> that you're on net 18, which isn't a valid assumption to make. Miki,
>>this needs to be fixed.
Yes, you are right about 18 and I am going to fix this. The other problem is
that /etc/myIPaddr was pointing to the wrong place in the miniroot (it was
pointing to /tmp/myIPaddr and should have pointed to /tmp/root/etc/myIPaddr).
>> But wait, there's more. The installer would also fail if you didn't
>> specify a custom install, because the default would link /srvd and /os
>> to places that don't exist (there aren't 9.0 system packs in the athena
>> cell yet). I fixed install1.sh so a default install would work; this
>> can be reverted once we go into early test and have packs in the athena
>> cell for the new release.
Yes, it was tested just in the custom install case.
>> Lastly, I noticed that the version of install1.sh in sunburn's
>> miniroot is based on an out of date version that still partitions disks
>> into /, /usr, and /var; it does not contain my changes to make all disks
>> >4GB be partitioned using the new partitioning scheme. These should be
>> merged in.
I merged in the changes to install1.sh
Despite all, the sunblade.mini on sunburn it is not yet ready to be deployed
for general use. It will be ready only after we have the release (athena
packs...).
Miki
