[5362] in testers
Re: 9.2.3 for Linux: rpm update broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat May 10 12:46:50 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 10 May 2003 12:46:46 -0400
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 12:06, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> The default Athena one- xss? (Or at least it looked just like it). I had
> set skip_xss in my .environment to keep it off, but it kicked in anyway
> so that looks like another issue.
Run gnome-control-center, choose "screensaver", and under screensaver
type, choose "disable screensaver". This should effectively happen by
default for users logging into 9.2 machines for the first time now, but
that only became the case in 9.2.3, so you wound up with the wrong
preference because you logged in before that change went in.
> So now I just need to know what to do to recover from the current state of the
> machine.
Well, its rpm database is pretty borked. If you "rpm -e
kernel-2.4.20-8", AFS should start up okay. I'll see about changing
rpmupdate to be able to recover from this kind of failure.
