[4659] in testers
Re: updating to 9 killed my workstation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark A. Van Dyke)
Wed May 23 10:28:34 2001
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:26:46 -0400
From: "Mark A. Van Dyke" <mvan@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Yeah, the subject line is a bit dramatic. ;-) Anyway, the
recovery worked like a charm. Thanks for the quick
response.
Mark
Greg Hudson wrote:
>
> > I tried to manually update kamp-krusty (Sun ultra) this morning. It
> > seemed to take it okay, but rebooting reports
>
> > /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1: CANNOT READ: BLK 16
> > /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
> Hi. This is a known failure mode which we're working on, involving
> mismatched device numbers on some machines. Your workstation isn't
> dead, just sleeping (the errors are from the update miniroot, not your
> actual filesystem).
>
> To recover your machine at 8.4, I believe this will work:
>
> * stop the boot at the prom (using stop+A)
> * setenv boot-device disk
> * boot
>
> With any luck, this problem should be fixed by late next Wednesday and
> you can update to 9.0 then; I will also try to remember to let you
> know when we have fixed it.
