[25772] in Athena Bugs
Re: many linux machines fail to perform public verification at boot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Jul 6 18:19:30 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:19:08 -0400
Message-Id: <200407062219.i66MJ8LL021314@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
To: jweiss@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200405032055.i43KtAWL018923@sipb-office-escape-pod.mit.edu>
(message from Jonathon Weiss on Mon, 3 May 2004 16:55:10 -0400 (EDT))
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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>While watching the w20 cluster reboot after today's power outage, I
>noticed that approximately half of the linux machines failed to properly
>verify themselves at boot time (though they did come up and present an
>xlogin screen).
For whatever reason, a lot of 9.2 machines have minorly wacked rpm
databases, which manifests as a failure to be able to rebuild their rpm
databases and occasional duplicate entries for some packages, notably mc.
It's this latter problem which is causing the machines you saw in W20 to
fail their verification.
Taking 9.3 seems to fix all of the above problems, however.
