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Updating to Athena 9 on Ultra 5 fails
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Grayson)
Fri Jun 15 15:15:43 2001
Message-Id: <200106151915.PAA29410@coast.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: dsheehan@MIT.EDU, miki@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:15:38 -0400
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
I'm trying to upgrade an Ultra 5 to Athena 9. I just freshly installed
Athena 8.4 on it, then made the following changes:
- Created and edited /.klogin
- Ran 'mkserv remote'
- Changed the root password
- Added a few users to /etc/passwd.local
- Attempted unsuccessfully to change the console resolution with
'm64config -res 1024x768x87'
- Modified /etc/vfstab to mount two external disks attached via a
SCSI card.
I then attached the new system packs and started the update.
The first phase where it untars the miniroot seemed to work OK.
After it reboots, it appears to work OK until it tries to mount
the disks. It looks like it can't mount the old swap partition.
Maybe it really is a disk fault, but everything was working fine
under 8.4. I see these errors:
mount: I/O error
mount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3
done athenainit
Get the rootdrive....
Starting AFS filesystem
afsd: some file missing or bad in /usr/vice/etc
/etc/rc2.d/S70finishupdate: /srvd/usr/athena/lib/update/update-environment:
not found
Get the rootdrive....
Starting AFS filesystem
afsd: some file missing or bad in /usr/vice/etc
/etc/rc2.d/S70finishupdate: /srvd/usr/athena/lib/update/update-environment:
not found
The system is ready.
INITSH: /etc/rc2.d/S71finish-update: cannot execute
(the line above is repeated around 10 times)
INIT: command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
id: co "/etc/rc2.d/S71finish-update >>/dev/console 2<>/dev/console
</dev/console"
Any ideas? The system is totally hosed for now. Can I salvage this
somehow, or should I just install fresh? I had no luck installing
9.0 directly on the system, because the net installer crashed early
on with an illegal instruction. Hence, I used the roundabout route
of installing 8.4 and upgrading.
Tom Grayson
