[1268] in testers
Re: xlogin problems on steve-dallas (sipb RT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 30 11:41:03 1990
From: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 11:40:42 -0500
To: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Barr3y Jaspan's message of Fri, 30 Nov 90 11:16:41 -0500,
> steve-dallas (and, I just discovered, bill-the-cat) would not allow
> logins today -- xlogin said "Workstation failed to activate
> properly, contact Athena ops" or somesuch. The machines were
> already activated. Logging in as root (on console), deactivating
> and reactivating the machines solved the problem.
>
> Does this have anything to do with speaker (the srvd server for
> these machines) having gone down yesterday?
Yes, that's what caused it. If Bill or Steve ever fully "deactivated"
(detached /srvd) they would have then spun up the pack from a
different server, and been fine. As it was, they didn't detach /srvd,
I couldn't get in remotely and there was no one in the office at the
time.
Still, I don't see why, if "deactivating and reactivating" as root
fixed the problem, the dm aut-reactivation didn't fix it earlier...
