[5677] in testers
I broke SMP Linux dev cell machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 12 19:54:49 2004
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:54:45 -0500
Message-Id: <200401130054.i0D0sjVE014150@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
9.2.27 contained a kernel update, but I failed to cause SMP Linux
kernels to be updated along with it, so such machines will have booted
without AFS. The 9.2.27 upgrade list has been fixed to prevent this
problem from happening any more, but machines which have already been
nailed will need to be fixed by hand.
You should be able to fix this with (as root):
wget http://web.mit.edu/afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux/redhat-9-updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.20-28.9.i686.rpm
rpm -Uvh kernel-smp-2.4.20-28.9.i686.rpm
If the machine uses lilo, you'll then need to update /etc/lilo.conf
for the new kernel and run "lilo". If the machine uses grub, you
won't need to do that. (If you don't know which it uses, then the
presence of a reasonably up-to-date /etc/lilo.conf generally suggests
that it uses lilo, but I doubt there are any of you in that position
on this list.) Either way, reboot the machine and you should be happy
again.
