[2196] in testers
Re: rsaix(7.6) problem with xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 8 13:17:50 1993
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 13:17:39 -0400
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
I thought you guys has updated your version of dsmail?!? Testers-mtg
isn't running the new version...
Message-Id: <9307081648.AA12625@hodge>
To: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU, release@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[10657] in Athena Bugs"
Subject: Re: rsaix(7.6) problem with xlogin
X-Orgs: MIT SIPB VWA LCS L2k
(slightly modified to include the information I sent in my followup to
bugs)
So, oliver, our rs6k, became a feely-test machine by virtue of somehow
being set to autoupdate and using beta-sys for packs. (After we
reinstalled the machine from floppy, since the autoupdate ran out of
space partway through and then happily continuted trying to update,
trashing the machine.), I encountered the following bugs:
(before reinstall, after autoupdate)
o fs help sysname returns a usage message. `fs sysname' returns
`Invalid argument', as does `fs sysname foo'
o after mounting afs (via ni) and system packs (via explicit path -
@sys didn't work; see above), I tried to run /srvd/update_ws. It
reported `It seems that you already have this update', so I removed
the last two lines from /etc/athena/version with ed.
/srvd/update_ws again said `It seems that you already have this
update'. I checked /etc/athena/version. It didn't exist. (problem
with ed? I didn't check the file between writing it and running
update_ws) I touched the file and reran /srvd/update_ws. `It seems
that you already have this update'. I cp'd gdss_public_key to
/etc/athena/version. `It seems that you already have this update'.
Then I removed the file and rebooted. No help. I gave up, since
Tom had finished making the first part of the install floppy, and
started the reinstall.
o `fs wscell' returned something like `the network or server appears
to be down' while `fs checks' says `All servers are running.' I
doubt thisis specifically related to the new release, and I
understand why it's doing this, but it's still wrong, IMHO...
(after reinstall)
o the machine came up `normally' and autoupdated, starting at 7.3a and
seemingly taking each update sequentially. A lot of it failed (not
too surprisingly :-), but it seemed to be a happy feely-test machine.
o Xlogin: go up to a feely-test machine. Type in your username. type
in the wrong password. The `bad passwd' dialog window will map.
You might even see it start to draw some text in it. The X server
will exit.
At this point I gave up and used another machine. More bugs once I
get some time to play with the machine again...
