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Operating Systems SCO Strange behaviour on Openserver 5.0.2 after 09/2015 Post 302957263 by bsmith15 on Thursday 8th of October 2015 01:40:16 PM

10-08-2015

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If upgrading from 5.0.2 to 5.0.6 is not possible, one way to guarantee that the system will be able to boot by forcing a "safe" date/time is to add the following line to the top of the /etc/inittab file:

Code:

date::sysinit:/bin/date -t 201508310101 </dev/null >/dev/console 2>&1

This will set the date/time to August 31, 2015 with time 01:01:00 no matter what the BIOS RTC clock was set to.

Once booted, log in as root and set the date/time to the correct value.

Note: In my testing, any attempt to set the date/time to the correct value during bootup (such as the normal method in the /etc/tcp init script and its starting of the xntpd daemon or use of ntpdate commands) will result in ifor_pmd crashing when you log in the first time and the system will only allow logins on tty01 console only. However, if you log in to the system as the root user manually after booting has finished and then set the date (via any method), ifor_pmd will not crash. It is acting as if there has to be a successful login (which causes mgetty to communicate with ifor_pmd to check license limits) once before the date can be modified without crashing ifor_pmd.

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update-manager

UPDATE-MANAGER(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 UPDATE-MANAGER(8)

NAME

       update-manager - graphical management of software packages updates

SYNOPSIS

       update-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Update-manager  is a frontend for the apt package management system. It allows you to perform some actions of the command line tool apt-get
       in a graphical environment.

       Update-manager is especially designed for upgrading your system, or migrating your system towards a more recent version.

OPTIONS

       For a daily use, you may launch update-manager with no options so that your system is just upgraded.

       For migration purposes, update-manager accepts some options:

       -h, --help
	      Show a similar help message

       -c, --check-dist-upgrades
	      Check if a new distribution release is available

       -d, --devel-release
	      Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible

       -p, --proposed
	      Try to run a dist-upgrade

       --dist-upgrade
	      Try to run a dist-upgrade

ACTIONS PERFORMED DURING AN UPGRADE TO A NEW VERSION

       * eventually reinstall the package ubuntu-desktop

       * switch to an updated sources.list entries

       * adds the default user to new groups if needed

SEE ALSO

       Synaptic, sources.list, aptitude

AUTHORS

       update-manager was developed by Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> with various contributors (see AUTHORS file)

       This manual page was originally written by Bruno Mangin and Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C)  2006-2007 Canonical

       There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software under the terms of  the  GNU General  Public License.	For more information about
       these matters, see the files named COPYING.

								  August 2, 2007						 UPDATE-MANAGER(8)