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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: 3.2 PTF nightmares
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.195119.21571@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 19:51:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Sep10.195119.21571
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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- So I ordered U403044 and got U407530. In addition to the assembler
- "fix", it also came with "fixes" for these "problems", and more:
-
- IX25228 the mkboot command does not allow /dev/network to be specified
- IX25275 /usr/lib/boot/tftp inslist entry should not list an oldpath
- IX24792 errpt and errclear need to accept alternate input filename
- IX24802 message file changes for errpt -i and errclear -i options
- IX25389 support for booting from a serial-link disk drive
- IX24806 chdclient & rmdclient hang when client is running
- IX24355 System hangs (888) Service IPL no printer in S1/S2
- IX25133 Update Diagnostic CEREADME file with maintenance fixes
- IX25287 Moving the token ring card causes network boot to hang at c21
- IX25784 rmdclient not deleting all info when remote paging file removed
- IX24975 Hardware Diagnostic Support
- IX24977 Hardware Diagnostic Support
- IX25126 Diagnostics should be able to detect past checkstops.
- IX25128 Confusing screens in Diagnostics for Graphics Adapter.
- IX25131 Change async diag fru bucket for srn 8xx-12x
- IX25134 Tape Diagnostics fix for type ahead problem.
- IX26193 bosboot commands fail if LANG not set to En_US or C
- IX26883 unable to force boot mode to normal or service [bosboot -M]
- IX26884 /usr and /var need "fsck -fp" during boot and getrootfs
- IX26891 Additional boot capabilities.
- IX24865 mksysb fails when fileystem close to full
- IX25293 MKSYSB EXCLUDES ROOTVG FILESYSTEMS WHEN MOUNT POINT IS IN
- IX26116 Fix the mkinsttape so that backup works on full systems
- IX26253 MKSYSB: CHECK FOR WRITABLE TAPE BEFORE STARTING
- IX26892 Additional BOS install capabilities.
- IX27213 Unable to install from a mksysb image backup.
-
- And these are just the *completely* ridiculous ones. I'm inclined to
- ask, quite bluntly:
-
- What the *HELL* does any of this have to do with the assembler? Why am
- I expected to install a bunch of superfluous crap that's almost
- guaranteed to break something else? I have no desire to tamper with
- stuff which currently works.
-
- I'm probably going to pull the patch I need off the tape and install it
- by hand. This should *not* be necessary.
-
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