[4720] in testers
Getting logged out after cancelling a doomed 9.0 update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Mon Jun 4 18:44:19 2001
Message-Id: <200106042244.SAA54761@not-for-reuse.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:44:13 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Last night I was bitten by the Sun Ultra1 problem. Perhaps flashing my
prom (as suggested by Garry) will fix this, but there's one thing I found
out that might be useful to know for anyone else that ends up with a similar
problem... after stopping an update, setting the boot-device back to disk,
getting the right packs attached, and removing the end of /etc/athena/version,
I was getting logged out fairly shortly after logging in (I imaginef Kevin
Cunningham is having the problem for the same reason - someone should pass
this info on to him if I'm right).
root's crontab gets updated before booting into the miniroot. Looking in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs, if you're experiencing this problem, you'll find
files for both root and root.old (during boot, you'll get a mysterious error
about no user named root.old existing). The problem is that root's crontab
is running reactivate every 6 minutes (if I remember correctly, that's a
feature of Athena 9.0). If reverting a machine to 8.4, it seems that you
should get rid of root's crontab and rename root.old to root.
Mitch
