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Re: Honey, I blew up my Linux box

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jun 3 00:47:03 2000

Message-Id: <200006030446.AAA11273@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:52:26 EDT."
             <200006030052.UAA01261@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu> 
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:46:54 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> I appeared to have a bad version of rpmupdate installed; running
> update_ws complained about an undefined symbol "fdOpen" in
> rpmupdate.  Since I updated the machine to 8.4 during alpha, I was
> willing to believe I had special lossage, so I manually updated the
> athena_ws package to get a more recent rpmupdate.

Good call here.  We build rpmupdate statically now.

> Once I did that, update_ws ran just fine.  When the machine booted
> after the update, it tried to load the module:

> /usr/vice/etc/modload/libafs-2.2.14-6.0.1.o 

This I do not understand.  /etc/rc.d/init.d/afs should say:

	VERSION=`uname -r | sed -e 's/-.*$//'`

which should yield 2.2.14.

I also don't understand why the 2.2.14 module wouldn't load; I haven't
seen that.

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