Resent: Mon, 29 May 89 18:31:05 EDT Resent: "jbs " Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA07664; Fri, 12 May 89 18:10:35 EDT From: Received: by ATHENA.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA05607; Fri, 12 May 89 18:10:48 EDT Received: by PINK.MIT.EDU (5.60/4.7) id AA10055; Fri, 12 May 89 18:10:20 EDT Date: Fri, 12 May 89 18:10:20 EDT Message-Id: <8905122210.AA10055@PINK.MIT.EDU> To: rap@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Message inbox:27) Received: by ATHENA-PO-2.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA16143; Fri, 5 May 89 16:39:58 EDT From: Received: by ATHENA.MIT.EDU (5.45/4.7) id AA12466; Fri, 5 May 89 16:39:56 EDT Received: by TOTO.MIT.EDU (5.60/4.7) id AA22693; Fri, 5 May 89 16:39:47 EDT Date: Fri, 5 May 89 16:39:47 EDT Message-Id: <8905052039.AA22693@TOTO.MIT.EDU> To: bgardner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: [raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: 6.2 ready for friendly-testers groups] Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 14:50:00 EDT From: Ken Raeburn To: staff@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: 6.2 ready for friendly-testers groups If you're in the friendly-testers groups, please update. If not, please ignore this message.... The instructions are slightly different this time: ^P and login as root to deactivated workstation attach -n bldge40test-vsusr-62A bldge40test-vssys-62A [vax] or attach -n bldge40test-rtusr-62A bldge40test-rtsys-62A [rt] /srvd/update_ws reboot The main difference here is that "shutdown now" does *not* get run. We found some problems in changes to init in 6.1C which cause problems in single-user mode. Failing to run "shutdown now" will result in some error messages from the update script and an extra fsck/reboot done after rebooting; don't worry about these, they are expected. The main change in this release is the conversion to X11R3. There are also some critical (but mostly non-visible) bug fixes. Some of the very noticable differences you are likely to see are: * Some X fonts (those not part of the current standard X distribution) have been moved out of the default font path. It is possible to access them by adding this directory to the font path (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/old). * Font naming is different in many cases; see Ralph Swick's recent message to `sysdev' and `appdev', available also in the Sysdev_Info discuss meeting on menelaus. * The default fonts used by zwgc are among those moved out of the font path; therefore, the `fixed' font is used instead. As usual, release notes should be available soon. Please send any comments (complaints, bug reports) to vs-testers or rt-testers. Thank you. -- Ken