[7782] in Athena Bugs
7.3 is ready
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Release Engineering)
Thu Jul 25 15:08:50 1991
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 91 15:06:38 -0400
To: "Friendly Testers" <devnull@odie.mit.edu>
From: "Release Engineering" <devnull@odie.mit.edu>
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If you are a the proud owner of a "friendly-test" machine, you can now
update to the latest and greatest (well, maybe not greatest):
To determine if your workstation is a "friendly-test" machine, type:
hesinfo `hostname` cluster
If the line:
syslib e40test-sys 7.3B
appears in the data returned, then you may proceed with the update. If
this line does not appear, do not even consider taking the release (talk
to a member of Release Engineering if you want to register your
workstation as a friendly-test machine).
We do encourage that all friendly testers take the update, and we shall
be strongly encouraging it in a couple of days by forcing all friendly
test machines to be using the new packs.
To update your machine:
1) Login as root on the console.
On a VAX, RT, or DECstation:
Shutdown X, by hitting CTRL-P on the machine. Depress and
release the CTRL key when the "login:" banner appears; the
kernel does not properly reset the keyboard when X is
shutdown. Then login as "root" (the default password is
"mrroot").
On a RISC/6000:
Hit ALT-ACT to switch to the "console" hft. Then login as
root (the default password is "mrroot").
2) Attach the new packs.
VAX, RT, and DECstation users
-----------------------------
Type:
/bin/athena/detach -h -n -a
/bin/athena/attach -h -n e40test-sys
/etc/shutdown now
It will take about 30 seconds for the machine to shutdown. After
30 seconds, you will see a warning message of the form:
WARNING: Something is hung (wont die); ps axl advised
Ignore it.
You should now see a # prompt. Press <RETURN> and make sure a
new # prompt appears on the next line. If it appears on the
same line, typing
/usr/ucb/reset (which will not appear in this situation)
will correct the problem. This problem has been most evident
if you force a shutdown while X is running (ie. not following
the directions in step 1).
RISC/6000 users
---------------
RISC/6000 owners should have Operations re-install their machines
with the Athena image. For later revisions, you will type:
/bin/athena/detach -h -n -a
/bin/athena/attach -h -n e40test-sys
3) DECstation Pre-conditioning.
If you are on a DECstation, you must type:
fs sysname pmax_ul4
4) Type:
/srvd/update_ws
This may ask you to press <RETURN> or prompt you for other information.
The prompts should be intelligible (you've no doubt gone through all
these questions during previous updates; there's nothing radically new
in this update).
5) After the update says it has updated the version number and another
# prompt has appeared, type:
/etc/reboot -q
N.B.:
1. Using Andrew with 7.3
If you take the 7.3 release and currently attach "andrew", you
should attach "tandrew" instead.
2. DECstation 5000's must have a base Athena installed first before
an update may take place.
That's all folks!
If you have any problems with updating a friendly test machine, contact
Release Engineering <release@MIT.EDU> after verifying that you did
follow the above directions.
If you have encounter any problems with the release, send a bug report
to <testers@MIT.EDU>
Enjoy!
