[5112] in testers
alpha update problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Apr 17 12:05:01 2002
Message-Id: <200204171604.MAA13843@central.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:04:58 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi folks,
I'm trying to update three of our alpha machines to 9.1 and haven't gotten
a clean update on any- I started the updates last night and had to leave
before they completed. This morning all 3 machines were "frozen" (no response
to keyboard or mouse) so I rebooted them. Details below:
augmented (SGI O2)- I ran as root:
detach -a
attach -O dev-sgisys-91
update_ws
After reboot- the machine comes back with a 9.1 X login screen; I can
log in, but I also get the "No system menus found!" error dialog as noted
by rbasch.
*****
allegretto (Sun Ultra 10)- I ran as root:
detach -a
attach -O dev-sun4sys-91
update_ws
During reboot, I saw the following message flash by:
This machine is in the middle of an update. Please contact Athena opeations.
It comes up as Athena 9.0. I retry the update- I get the message above again
and nothing further happens.
*****
astrophel (Linux)- I ran as root:
update_ws 9.1
After reboot- I get a text login screen- not X. It looks like it updated
because it says Red Hat Release 7.2
Kernel 2.4.9-31
I can log in but see no obvious way to get it into X.
Alex
