[4670] in testers
My Sun wouldn't complete update to Athena beta 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M. Cunningham)
Thu May 24 14:09:46 2001
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:09:23 -0400
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From: "Kevin M. Cunningham" <kcunning@MIT.EDU>
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Howdy,
I believe you know about this problem happening in general, but I
wanted to include my machine among the list of wounded. I tried to
take the beta of 9.0 yesterday (or was it Tuesday?) on my Sun Ultra
5, slingshot.mit.edu, and after a while it failed and suggested I try
a fsck, which I did, with results along the lines of:
THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16 17 18 [...] 30 31
CANNOT READ; BLK 16
Anyway, the machine is now stuck in root login. When I try to exit it says
ENTER RUN LEVEL (0-6, s or S) [2]:
When I press return, it says:
INIT: cannot create /var/adm/utmpx
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
and I'm stuck back in root login.
Again, not presuming you don't already know all this, but if you
figure out a fix, could you send someone to N42-240F to fix
slingshot.mit.edu -- or send me instructions and I'll do it myself.
Thanks!
--Kevin
