Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tiamat!quintro!bep
From: bep@quintro.uucp (Bryan Province)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: vt100 broken after patches
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.134337.687@quintro.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 90 13:43:37 GMT
References: <1990Jul9.162841.26541@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: bep@quintro.UUCP (Bryan Province)
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In article <1990Jul9.162841.26541@caen.engin.umich.edu> jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro) writes:
>I recently upgraded some 3500s to SR 10.2.  All went fine, and
>everything worked including vt100.  I then installed the following
>patches for 10.2:
>
> patches ... patches ... patches
>patch_m0142.v.1.0
> ... more patches ...
>
>Any ideas why this would break vt100?
>

In case you haven't figured it out by now your problem is patch 142.  I had
loaded this myself and also broke vt100.  When I called the hotline the guy
said "Don't even load that patch.  I don't know why it was even on the patch
tape.  It doesn't work."  Your solution it to copy the old version of
/sys/vtserver from another node or from your authorized area.  The following
is the timestamp of the proper file:

3 %  ts /sys/vtserver
Ver Name              Time Stamp                     File Name
--------------------------------------------------------------
c 1 vte_server        1989/07/06 13:16:04 CDT (Thu)  /sys/vtserver

We have been saying on the net here for a while that we should be provided
with a list of patches so that we can decide if we need to load them to solve
our problems.  I still agree with that idea.  However here is an argument
against indiscriminately (sp?) loading patches without first talking to the
hotline about the problem.  I think this is one reason why Apollo doesn't
provide tapes automatically.  They don't want us to shoot ourselves in the foot.  
Just a thought.  I'm an optimist.  I like to think that Apollo means well.
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