[3730] in testers
Re: test-sgi hosed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Jul 7 19:38:02 1998
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jul 1998 03:22:53 EDT."
<199807070722.DAA11584@the-other-woman.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 19:37:53 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> I was in the w20 cluster and noticed that test-sgi had a panic message
> on its screen, so I rebooted it. Wehn it came up it was in a really
> weird state (possibly booted off of the miniroot for the update?)
>
> Bob, do you want to look at it before cluster re-installs, or are we
> assuming taht all bets are off if the machien panicks during an
> update?
>
> I left the machine powered off, but was too lazy to put a sign on it.
Well, the update doesn't attempt to recover from a mid-update crash, but
I took a look at the machine anyway; it was powered up, and had panicked
again (SIMM error). I rebooted it, and it was indeed booting off of the
miniroot for update. (It came up successfully in the miniroot, but it
failed to restart the update, since the target root filesystem was dirty).
I left it powered off, with a sign saying "SIMM Error".
Bob
