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Re: failed Linux 9.4 update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Apr 15 01:04:58 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:04:45 -0400
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:57, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to update astrophel.mit.edu (Linux) to 9.4 and the update failed.
> The final screenful of printout had multiple lines like this:
astrophel had been affected by a hung update from 9.3.12 to 9.3.15, with
the corresponding prognosis for RPM deleting system files. I asked Alex
for root access, performed some 9.3 updates, and updated the machine to
9.4. It should be all set now.
