[3899] in testers
Initial 8.3 Solaris test results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Mar 26 18:31:03 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:30:54 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
I updated a sparc classic to 8.3 (or something built from the source
tree during the past week, anyway) today. Bugs I observed which I
didn't expect to observe:
* During startup, attach complained of not being able to
initialize the zephyr library. This was at the fsid -p -q
-a command, I think.
* When I logged in as systest, libal complained that it
couldn't set my group list. Then it said my homedir was
unavailable. (I have AFS.) "attach systest" says:
Cannot attach locker on /mit:
directory /mit is user/group writable.
In fact, /mit is group-writable, but is owned by group root.
And I certainly don't see what the problem is with it being
user-writable; perhaps the error message means
other-writable.
Bugs I wasn't surprised to see (the first two will go away with a
simple rebuild of the packs):
* I failed to hand-update attach.conf (I was using an older
version script), so I got some warnings about that.
* xlogin displayed 8.2 as the version number.
* dash couldn't find its X resources ('cause they're not
installed).
* quota found a "badly formatted entry in
/var/athena/attachtab". (I'll say; it was reading a
directory as a file.)
The root partition got down to about 1.6MB, and climbed back up to
2.4MB after a reboot, so open files were probably holding onto roughly
800K of filesystem space. I should figure out what that was. I'm
guessing a combination of afsd (can't do too much about that, other
than fudge the stat information so it doesn't get tracked) and
something else we're failing to shut down.
All in all, surprisingly good. We may not even have to slip the
schedule for alpha. We should fail to update the operating system
more often.
