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Re: 9.2.3 for Linux: rpm update broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 8 16:54:08 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200305081828.h48ISUNQ001682@astrophel.mit.edu>
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Date: 08 May 2003 16:51:41 -0400
On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 14:28, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> > cd /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux/athena-9.2/RPMS
> > rpm -Uvh athena-rpmupdate-9.2-3.i386.rpm
>
> I did this, and found that on the next reboot of the machine
> (astrophel), AFS wouldn't start.
For the record, the install.log Alex sent me contains no obvious error
messages, but ends with:
+ athena-mdoc ########################################### [ 98%]
+ glibc-devel ########################################### [ 99%]
+ athena-m4 ###########################################
suggesting that something hangs or gets cut off just before package
deletions happen. I'll need some more information. Your version file
ends with:
Athena Workstation (linux) Version Update Wed May 7 19:49:14 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version 9.2.1 Wed May 7 19:51:46 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version Update Wed May 7 23:37:15 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version 9.2.1 Wed May 7 23:39:15 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version Update Thu May 8 03:25:14 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version 9.2.1 Thu May 8 03:27:31 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version Update Thu May 8 07:13:15 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version 9.2.1 Thu May 8 07:15:17 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version Update Thu May 8 11:01:15 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version 9.2.1 Thu May 8 11:03:24 EDT 2003
Athena Workstation (linux) Version Update Thu May 8 12:44:38 EDT 2003
Were any of those update attempts manual? The machine has been rebooted
since 12:44pm today; was it visibly in the middle of an update when this
happened?
Also, something to try: nuke the last line of /etc/athena/version and
try updating. I'm guessing it will hang at the same place where the
update.log cuts off; tell me if it behaves any differently. If it hangs
there, suspend the update process and kill -9 the rpmupdate process;
then try running an innocent rpm command like "rpm -q kernel". My guess
is that it will hang; let me know what happens.
