[5235] in testers
Re: weird cluster error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jun 18 14:48:45 2002
Message-Id: <200206181848.OAA01799@dnab408adc.stanford.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:11:04 EDT."
<200206181611.MAA01592@che.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:48:41 -0400
> I, mistakenly, thought there was a normal release today, so on my
> machine, che, tried an update. Silly me.
As I mentioned over zephyr, che is now in the early test cluster, so
you'll be able to update later today.
> What bothers me, though, is the error message:
>
> # /etc/athena/update_ws 9.1
> Can't find system cluster information.
> Please contact Athena Cluster Services at x3-1410. -Athena Operations
>
> That telephone number is Hardware Services, IIRC. Do they have any
> clue about cluster info?
The have some clue, and they know who to escallate to if there is a
problem.
> For the record che *does* have cluster info, just not for this release:
>
> # hesinfo che cluster
> syscontrol control/control-8.4 8.4
> syscontrol control/control-9.0 9.0
> sysprefix /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/rhlinux
> syscontrol control/control-8.3 8.3
What that error probably means in this case is "This machine has no
cluster info for the 9.1 release". We might be able make the error
message suck a little less, but I haven't had a chance to look.
Jonathon
