[4722] in testers
More Ultra1 woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Tue Jun 5 00:49:16 2001
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To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 00:49:10 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
After flashing the prom of my Ultra1 Creator (byte-me.mit.edu), it was
able to begin the update to 9.0 and boot the miniroot. After chugging
along for a while, many package installations began to complain that the
root partition was full, and that they were failing to install. To be
certain I had not messed anything up with the root partition myself, I
performed a default install of 8.4 from scratch. The only changes I made
after this were:
- Changed root password
- Set PUBLIC=false in /etc/athena/rc.conf
- Installed a srvtab
- Ran mkserv remote
- Created a 2-line /etc/athena/access
- Rebooted
I then tried updating again and the same thing happened. I allowed the
update to complete, and miraculously enough, it boots, but obviously is
very non-functional (has no AFS, is missing lots of libraries, etc.) It
does, however, have a complete /var/athena/update.log. For lack of network
access or a disk, I can't put it anywhere, but if someone would like to poke
at the machine, it's on my desk and has the zone root password. Tom and I
think it almost definitely has to do with partitioning problems, but it's
not obvious why a default install of 8.4 wouldn't have sufficient space in
any of its partitions on an Ultra given that SPARC5s have been updated
successfully.
Hope this is somewhat useful,
Mitch
