[20555] in Athena Bugs
Re: Sun Ultra 5: problems updating to 9.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Mon Aug 5 13:45:29 2002
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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:45:27 -0400
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Folks,
Just to follow up on this, the problem with this system became obvious when
I looked at the disk partitioning. The system has a 4 GB disk that was
partitioned with /, /usr, /usr/vice/cache and swap all at about 131 MB, and
a /var partition with about 3.95 GB. It was running out of space trying to
load things into /usr.
I decided to do a custom re-install and hope that Athena really didn't need
the recommended 8 GB for /. Using the advertised minimum size for swap and
the AFS cache and putting everything else in /, the system managed to come
up. The disk will be replaced before we get to Athena 10.0. :-)
This system is now back up and running with the minor problem that I forgot
to copy the srvtab file. :-(
Can I get the old one? Or do I need to ask for a new one to replace it?
(The srvtab was for both remote access and remote services.)
Thanks,
--Tom
Greg Hudson writes:
> 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.
>
--
Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
Computer Operations Manager Email: cavin@mit.edu
MIT - Whitaker College Computer Facility or tec@ai.mit.edu
