[20541] in Athena Bugs
Re: Sun Ultra 5: problems updating to 9.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Aug 1 20:11:19 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>, Athena Bugs list <bugs@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200208020000.UAA03462@riff-raff.mit.edu>
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I would suggest the following to try to recover: edit
/etc/athena/version, and add a line which looks just like the last line
except with 9.1.13 replaced with 9.0.27. (Don't reboot at this point;
you still want the 9.1 system packs attached.) Then run update_ws as
root in a console login. Since the machine is substantially running
Solaris 8 now, it might have a better chance of successfully installing
all the Solaris packages and patches.
If that doesn't work, you may need to reinstall. In fact, you might
want to back up any important information before you try, since it could
just make things worse.
I've been meaning to put a check in the update script to prevent people
from updating by more than one full release, but have never gotten
around to it.
