[7690] in testers
Athena 10 installation attempt, round 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Sat Sep 13 03:39:46 2008
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To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, jdreed@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:38:59 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I made one further Athena 10 installation attempt after the first two
unsuccessful ones, on one of my home machines (generic Powerspec
from MicroCenter). I duplicated where I wound up on my first attempt,
on my now defunct laptop, so at least there is some consistency.
The install ran to completion, though the installer applet again
warned me that there was a broken package (as I saw on my second
attempt). I just ignored this. On reboot I got an Athena 10 login
screen- I logged in, and got a plain tan screen as on my laptop
attempt, with no keyboard control. Cursor could be moved around but
that's it. I let it sit for at least an hour. No change. I'm certain
the network was alive, and I have a fast connection (FIOS). One odd
observation- ctrl-alt-del had no effect, but ctrl-alt-backspace did-
it looked like it was starting a shutdown sequence, but stopped after
printing the line:
Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]
At that point, ctrl-alt-del made it complete a reboot. I had seen
identical behavior on the laptop.
The Athena 10 install was done as before, over an Ubuntu 8.04
installation that was fully updated. One thing I neglected to mention
before that may possibly be relevant- on the first (laptop) and third
(home machine) attempt, I had already installed Open AFS and MIT
Kerberos before the Athena 10 install- this was not the case on my
second attempt, but different things may have gone wrong there.
Alex
