[25490] in Athena Bugs
Re: Problems loading a SCSI Linux Athena system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Tue Feb 10 19:03:36 2004
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:02:50 -0500
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
To: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
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cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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Miror update:
In the install process:
...
323:athena-newpag ######################################## [ 41%]
324:athena-perl eerror: unpacking of archive failed on file
/usr/athena/man/man3/Time::gmtime.3;4029226a: cpio: read failed - No such
file or directory
The installation of the Linux Athena rpms has failed.
This is probably due to insufficient space or other filesystem
errors. You'll have to restart the install; manual disk partitioning
is recommended.
Press return to reboot.
I'm trying again. I think this is a different problem.
Well, after trying a second time, the network connection disappeared.
I couldn't ping my building router, but I could ping this IP address.
... Just found out my problem. I tried to overload an IP address. :-(
We'll try a third time. ... It's gone past the athena-perl bit and I'll
see what happened when I get in tomorrow.
Best,
--Tom
Tom Cavin writes:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Using the version 2 installer seems to have worked. It's certainly acting
> like it's doing something. The next step will be to let it finish and to
> see how it does on an update. However I think I'm past the big hurdle.
>
> Do you want any details on this hardware or any other access to help you
> with debugging the installer? If so, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Tom
>
> andrew m. boardman writes:
> >
> > >Are there any special instructions for a SCSI only installation?
> >
> > No, it should Just Work.
> >
> > >As far as I can tell, either I'm doing something wrong or there is a bug in
> > >the installer, and I'm hoping you can tell me which. (And I'm really
> > >hoping you can provide a solution. :-)
> >
> > It sounds like there's a bug in the installer. Any chance I could get
> > physical access to the machine for testing?
--
Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
Computer Operations Manager Email: cavin@mit.edu
MIT - Whitaker College Computer Facility or tec@ai.mit.edu
