[24280] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux Athena boxes hanging on update 9.2.16 to 9.2.20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed Sep 24 19:10:10 2003
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:10:08 -0400
Message-Id: <200309242310.h8ONA85F016757@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
CC: cavin@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <1064439660.3579.32.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (message from
Greg Hudson on Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:41:13 -0400)
>I'm not sure what happened here, or whether it will happen again the
>next time the kernel updates. I'm not sure if we're triggering weird
>behavior by running kudzu after the kernel has updated but before it has
>booted. Andrew, any ideas?
I've certainly seen kudzu invocations hang when the running and installed
kernels don't match, though that should not be the case for a
9.2.16->9.2.20 update. (We had a minorly disastrous patch relesae due to
this a while back.) Beyond that, I have no solid information, although
there are suggestions in Red Hat's bugzilla that the current Red Hat 9
kudzu has some nondeterministic-seeming hanging tendencies.
In any case, we can certainly remove the kudzu invocation from the update
script, given that we now run "kudzu -q" in the athena-sysconfig init
script, for roughly the same reasons we do so in the update script.
Tom, is there anything unusual about the hardware of these machines or
anything connected to it? Also, I'm currently doing some debugging on
vat-brain, so I would indeed like to keep it in its current state until
Thursday, assuming it continues to be reasonably possible.
