[3602] in Release_7.7_team
Re: problem with auto update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Dec 3 15:39:27 2002
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:39:24 -0500
Message-Id: <200212032039.PAA29103@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: jakane@MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <3DECFBB2.FECBA0E9@mit.edu> (message from Jonathan A Kane on Tue,
03 Dec 2002 13:45:06 -0500)
As you've correctly surmised, your machine is trying to update to 9.1 and
failing, over and over and over. So far as this goes:
>It also gave the name of a file library that was giving it trouble but
>since it began rebooting it flew by too fast for me to write it down. I
>assume this auto update error is what made the machine reboot 11 times a
>day while I was gone.
The error will also be recorded in /var/athena/update.log. Boot the
machine, log in (it won't try and update with someone logged in), and
then have a look at that to find out what the failed dependencies are.
Someone almost certainly has added additional packages with rpm, and they
conflict with packages in the new release. The easiest thing to do at
this point is to remove the additional packages that are giving you
trouble, take the update, and then (assuming you still need them) install
the 7.3 versions of these packages.
Once you think you've got it sorted, at a root prompt,
"/etc/athena/update_ws 9.1" will try and update the system, and tell you
if/when/how it fails, without forcing a reboot aftwards.
(A lot of this lore will be covered in the new version of the Private
Workstation Owner's Guide, but it's still in the works.)
