[19877] in Athena Bugs
linux install weirdnesses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Oct 8 21:44:57 2001
Message-Id: <200110090144.VAA09216@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: amb@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:44:50 -0400
For various reasons, I ran a linux install the other day and watched
it run. I noticed the following issues. I don't beleive any of them
are urgent, but some could be a little annoying, and those are
probably easy to fix.
1) The athena-base post-install script reports: date not found
this is presumably from attempting to initiate /etc/athena/version
and isn't a big deal becuase we re-initiate it at the end of the
athena install.
2) The end of the install reports: gettime time/udp service unknown
presumably becuase we are trying to set the time before initiating
/etc/athena/version. I'm guessing that the miniroot is just missing
an /etc/services entry or something.
3) The first reboot after a clean 9.0 install rebuilds the RPM db
This really surprised me since we are installing at 9.0 these days
and I didn't think that we needed to rebuild the RPM db after we left
8.4. am I confused here?
4) On the initial reboot (and presumably subsequent ones) athena-verify
reports forcibly re-installing the following RPMs:
kernel
kernel-headers
fileutils
finger-server
initscripts
pam
rpm
umb-scheme
This doesn't cause any problems other than slowing down the boot
process as far as I know, but someone should track down why it
thinks it needs to re-install them, and fix it.
Jonathon
