[4716] in testers
Re: My Sun wouldn't complete update to Athena beta 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M. Cunningham)
Mon Jun 4 17:24:16 2001
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:24:10 -0400
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
From: "Kevin M. Cunningham" <kcunning@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Kevin M. Cunningham" <kcunning@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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At 2:29 PM -0400 5/24/01, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a known problem; these instructions were sent to the
>list earlier this week; they should work for you:
>
>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.
>
>Garry
Howdy,
I did try the fix above, and it got me out of the infinite loop, but
my machine isn't working yet. I can login, it seems (the pre-login
owl is 8.4, but the console claims 9.0.4 after login), but pretty
soon I get logged out again with the console claiming:
This system is in the middle of an update.
This is after, say, two minutes.
Is the new fix ready yet? I never saw any messages about it. (I'm not
on testers.)
(My machine again is slingshot.mit.edu.)
Thanks,
--Kevin
