[5120] in testers
Re: alpha update problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Apr 18 09:14:48 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu, facdev@mit.edu
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(Sorry if some of this is redundant.)
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 12:04, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> 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:
I think we understand the other failures, but the "frozen" part remains
a mystery on all three. Can you elaborate a bit? What were the
machines displaying at the time, before you rebooted them?
Also, can you send the update.log for the SGI? (To testers.) I don't
think it will explain the freeze behavior, but it can't hurt.
> allegretto (Sun Ultra 10)- I ran as root:
I believe we have found and corrected the problem with the update on
this class of machine.
If you have not already removed the last line of /etc/athena/version
(which says "Version Update"), do so; then retry the update.
> astrophel (Linux)- I ran as root:
We know what went wrong here; basically, there was a bug in the scripts
we use to generate the RPM list files for the release, and the XFree 3.x
SVGA server was dropped. I have fixed the list file; to repair your
machine, run (as root):
cd /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux/redhat-7.2/RedHat/RPMS
rpm -i XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-42.i386.rpm
and hopefully all will be well.
