[4566] in testers
blank screen during update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Mar 22 10:52:04 2001
Message-Id: <200103221551.KAA21399@myxomycete.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: ajfox@MIT.EDU, wdc@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200103221502.KAA00632@whirlwind.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:51:59 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
When I walked into SIPB last night, xcb (ultra 10) was at a blank white
screen, pinging, but not answering athinfo. I didn't figure out that
it was in the middle of an update, but I got distracted by a user and
wandered off after poking at the keyboard a bit.
When I came back, it was booting up, and I figured out that it had taken
an update. The update.log looks normal.
As well as Abby, I know Bill assumed that an ultra he was updating
yesterday had crashed in mid-update. He booted the machine and re-tried
the update; I didn't hear what happened to that, or the exact symptoms,
though.
-Camilla
