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Re: Updating to Athena 9 on Ultra 5 fails
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 15 15:39:10 2001
Message-Id: <200106151939.PAA22121@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU, dsheehan@MIT.EDU,
miki@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:36:08 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:39:04 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> For the record, I do remember during the 8.4 install that joust has
> a Segate Medalist hard-drive, which means the AFS issue is the one
> Greg just mentioned, but this doesn't necessarily explain why
> name_to_major is coming out wrong and nawk is failing.
Not in any obvious way, certainly. For the record, though, I tested
an update from 8.4 to 9.0 on an Ultra 5 just a couple of days ago and
it worked fine, so this other problem (assuming it is a genuinely
distinct proble) doesn't affect all Ultra 5 machines.