[5123] in testers
Re: alpha update problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Apr 18 14:15:57 2002
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Apr 2002 09:14:43 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:15:54 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>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?
The machines seemed to be "logged in"- the monitors had windows open
(the ones I had left running when I started the update the night
before). I think (but am not certain) that none had rebooted. The
gnome panels were present at the bottom of the screen. In thinking
about this further- this issue may be bogus; I wasn't paying careful
attention to what was on the monitors, and our test cluster just got
moved to a new location; keboards were positioned oddly relative to
machines and monitors and I may have been typing on a keyboard
associated with a different monitor than the one I thought was
connected to it.
>> 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.
Done- it appears to have taken the update, but I can't log in. It says:
Unable to start xlogin, doing console login instead.
When I try that, as soon as I enter a username, the screen prints out
an error about a missing library for a split second, but too fast to
read; the screen switches to a grey X windows background for another
split second, then that goes away and it returns to "Unable to start xlogin..".
If I let it sit a few min,. it prints:
ld.so.1:/bin/athena/fsid: fatal: libkrb4.so.2: No such file or directory.
This might be the missing library it complains about above, but I'm not
certain.
Then it prints a few more errors, all involving this same library; I also get:
/etc/athena/reactivate: update_ws: not found
As a separate issue- while it was rebooting from the update, it complained that
it couldn't start sshd- some libgss library missing (went by too fast to read
exactly).
>> 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.
Done- things are well (to the extent that I can do an X login anyway).
A.
