[4526] in testers
linux 8.4 update diagnostics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Jun 30 19:59:16 2000
Message-Id: <200006302359.TAA627256@aupair.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:59:08 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
In case this has not been seen or expected...
I ran the following procedure on anhedonia, a newly installed 8.3.31
linux machine, to update it to 8.4.5:
cd /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux/athena-8.4/free/RPMS
rpm -U athena-ws-8.4-3.i386.rpm
update_ws 8.4
and it produced a lot of diagnostics, mostly of the form:
package not found in file index
or
cannot remove <some_directory> - directory not empty
More entertainingly, near the end it reported:
rmdir of / failed: No such file or directory
The update did seem to complete OK, and the system seems to be
fine.
One thing about the machine that might be noteworthy is that it
did not have any cluster mapping in hesiod; prior to the update, I
created /etc/athena/cluster.local containing the following:
syscontrol control/control-8.3 8.3
syscontrol control/control-8.4 8.4
sysprefix /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/rhlinux
The update.log is in /mit/rbasch/Public, in case it is of interest.
Bob
