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Re: My Sun wouldn't complete update to Athena beta 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 4 17:39:08 2001
Message-Id: <200106042139.RAA31699@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "Kevin M. Cunningham" <kcunning@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:24:10 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:39:02 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
I believe your machine managed to take some 9.0 Athena software
without actually updating to Solaris 8. I'm not sure exactly how it
would have done so, though.
The good news is, the update should be working for your machine now.
Remove the last line of /etc/athena/version and run update_ws.
