[4387] in testers
Re: problems wiht updating to 8.4 on an ultra
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu May 25 22:09:37 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 May 2000 10:14:49 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 22:09:29 -0400
> > Starting the second stage of the update at Mon May 22 18:16:12 EDT 2000.
> > Updating version
> > Running mkserv.
> > Could not initialize Zephyr library: Hostmanager not responding.
>
> I know what's going on here (zhm isn't running, and mkserv is an
> attach and run script), but I'm not sure why we haven't seen the
> problem before,
We probably have been seeing it before, it's just that we don't do
updates that require rebooting before mkserv very often.
> and I don't immediately know a good way of fixing it.
> (We could make the update script explicitly run mkserv out of the
> locker and use the -h flag to attach, but that's ugly.)
I'm still not sure that we care. I suspect it depends on how many
people we think this will confuse.
Jonathon
