[5115] in testers
Re: alpha update problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Apr 17 14:17:29 2002
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:17:25 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200204171817.OAA15492@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[5112] in testers"
>> 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.
It sounds like your update was fine; the panel menus actually live in
version specific files in /afs/athena/system/config/panel/, and the 9.1
version wasn't there yet. Greg made a 9.1 -> 9.0 symlink to make the
software shut up, and the f_l's can deal in a more complete way at their
leisure.
>> 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.
The machine's /etc/athena/version file ends with a "Version Update"
line; you should remove that. Can you also send us the contents of
/var/athena/update.log?
>> 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.
It is, in fact, updated, although not running X is odd. Can you send
us the contents of update.log again, and also let us know what the
default init level of the machine is? Look in /etc/inittab for a line
that looks like this:
id:5:initdefault:
for the latter piece of information (the number in the second field
might not be "5").
Also, if you could try logging in as root on a text console and
running "startx", it would be interesting to see if that gives any
errors.
Garry
