[1318] in testers
Restart cleanup bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 4 04:21:25 1990
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 04:21:05 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@mit.edu
When the cleanup runs, there is an /etc/nologin present. On Alecto, a
vs2 auto-updated to 7.2C, I logged in on the console (with ^P) and
caused the /etc/nologin to stay around. The symptoms include an error
in the console window:
04:11 cleanup: /etc/nologin already exists, not performing cleanup.
and the following:
alecto# ls -l /etc/nologin ; cat /etc/nologin ; last -1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 62 Dec 4 01:18 /etc/nologin
This machine is down for cleanup; try again in a few seconds.
root console Tue Dec 4 01:18 - 01:39 (00:20)
The time on the /etc/nologin is the same as my login time on the
console. For detail on what happened at 01:18, read on.
When I typed ^P the first time, I got the login banner (because I
pressed the control key). When I typed ^P the second time, I got
"Console login requested" but no login prompt. A few (<< 60) seconds
later I got the login banner again, and typed ^P a third time. This
time I got a login prompt and logged in as root.
