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prevert.mit.edu: failed Linux 9.4 update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Apr 27 17:57:57 2005
Message-Id: <200504272130.j3RLUeti008042@central.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:30:40 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I tried updating prevert.mit.edu from 9.3.something to 9.4- the update
seemed to run normally to the point where it says "update complete,
please reboot". When I did that, I got error messages about various
inodes being recovered, then:
INFO: recovery needed on readonly filesystem
it continued the boot to
..-fs: recovery complete
then to the line where it says:
freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
and right after that:
..ing: unable to open an initial console.
and it hangs.
the ..-fs : and ..ing: refer to the first part of the line being cut
off. prevert has an LCD monitor and before X starts, the first part of
text lines are cut off.
As far as I know prevert had no problems before attempting the update. It would
be great if someone could help me recover from this state- I need a Linux
9.4 machine for testing ASAP.
Thanks,
Alex
