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Re: Debathena Beta: logout reboots machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 12 20:44:40 2009
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:43:39 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Steven J Levine <sjlevine@mit.edu>
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Hi Steve -
Debathena cluster machines to a lot of cleanup on logout, and when
that cleanup fails, they'll reboot to try again. It's probable that the
behavior you're seeing is by design, but we've been getting a lot of
reports of cluster machines rebooting, so maybe our cleanup code isn't
as robust as it could be.
I'm working on a new version of the cleanup software that logs a little
more verbosely, as well as a new athinfo query to extract that log
remotely, so that we can try to figure out what's going wrong. It'll
take us a few days to get the code into the field. Let's say that if you
see a cluster machine reboot after logout after Monday, send us another
e-mail with the hostname of the machine where it happened.
As for the startup and shutdown logo, that's been on my list of things
to look at for a while. So that the rest of the developers and I don't
forget to look into it, I've opened ticket #145 in the Debathena Trac
(https://debathena.mit.edu:444/trac/ticket/145)
Thanks for the report,
- Evan
Steven J Levine wrote:
> Hello,
> I've noticed a rather strange bug on some debathena beta workstation
> machines located around campus that I thought you should be aware of.
> Typing "logout" at a command prompt reboots the computer instead of just
> logging me out. The Ubuntu "unloading scrollbar" comes up, then the
> computer reboots, and eventually it returns to the standard login
> screen. Although this does **eventually** return me to the standard
> login screen, I'm sure this isn't the desired behavior!
>
> This happened to me several times, most recently on m12-182-1.mit.edu
> in the building 12 Athena cluster.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Levine
>
>
>
> P.S. Here's a low-priority idea I had: instead of displaying the
> standard Ubuntu logo upon start up and shutdown, it would be pretty neat
> to instead display the Debathena logo instead.
>
>
>
