[6759] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.1H: system rvd packs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 1 15:45:56 1991
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 91 15:45:35 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: tldavis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5931]
Are you stil having the problems described below? If so, could you
give me a few more details? For example:
* What do you mean when you say that 'ls /srvd' "looks ok?" Do you
see any files at all when you do an ls of /srvd?
* Does "mount" show the /srvd as being mounted when this problem
occurred?
* Does "attach" show the /srvd as being attached when this problem
occurred?
* How is pasteur "configured as an `athena server'?" Has mkserv been
run on it? If so, which mkserv options were specified?
* Is it running toehold (the "Hit any key to start.") on the console?
If so, it should be deactivating regularly. Why do you think it
isn't?
* Have you tried simply reactivating the workstation
(/etc/athena/activate) when you log into it and the packs don't
exist. The activation process, which is usually run automatically
when you hit a key at the "Hit any key to start." prompt,
automatically attaches the /srvd. If you're logging in remotely
with no one logged in on the console, then the packs aren't
*supposed* to be attached, since the workstation isn't activated.
This problem will most likely go away in the next software release,
which handles activation differently so that the worktation is
activated most of the time. However, the system packs will still
occasionally not be attached. To solve this problem, put this in your
.environment files until pasteur is running release 7.2:
if (! -e /srvd/bin) /etc/athena/activate
After release 7.2 is installed, change the /etc/athena/activate to
/etc/athena/reactivate.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
Reference:
From: tldavis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 90 10:24:11 EDT
I've just had to reboot pasteur.mit.edu for the third time in the past few
weeks, each time with the same symptoms.
BACKGROUND:
pasteur is configured as an "athena server", meaning it accepts rlogins. It
also doesn't seem to deactivate on its own, which is fine for this purpose.
PROBLEM:
it loses the /srvd and /urvd subdirectories from its packs on caduceus:,
although the other vax works fine on the same rvd packs. 'ls /srvd' looks ok,
but there is NOTHING (not even . and ..) in, for example, /srvd/bin, so most
stuff is unavailable. I had to realize that "login" is available since "su"
was gone in order to become root to shutdown.
System name: pasteur
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.1H (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Use emacs via rlogin
What's wrong:
See above: system disk packs were hosed.
What should have happened:
ls /srvd/bin should show a bunch of binaries
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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