[4816] in testers
Re: xcb updated by hand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Coventry)
Sat Jun 16 18:08:28 2001
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:08:22 -0400
Message-Id: <200106162208.SAA06105@pickled-herring.mit.edu>
From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
CC: sipb-staff@mit.edu, jhawk@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <20010616175059.B19590@multics.mit.edu> (message from John
Hawkinson on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:50:59 -0400)
[Me, to sipb-office]
> > Hi. The console on xcb was repeatedly displaying this message:
> >
> > 16:04 /srvd/etc/athena/desync: Invalid time file /var/athena/update.desync
> >
> > When we checked, it turned out that it was running athena 9.0.5, so I
> > ran update_ws by hand.
>
[jhawk]
> The right thing here is to send mail to testers reporting the bug
> (because it is a beta machine), and such a bug report should include
> the above as well as the contents of the file. Hopefully it did not
> change when you updated by hand?
xcb is a Sun Ultra 10. The timestamp on the file in question,
/var/athena/update.desync, is Jun 7, so the update on Jun 15 probably
didn't alter it. Currently, it contains only the line "setenv SYS"
Running update_ws by hand on the machine resulted in no errors.
HTH.
Alex.
