installupdate failing!

From: Harvey Rarback 630-252-0427 <RARBACK_at_cars3.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:28:31 -0600 (CST)

    Managers,

I just did an installupdate -i on a Digital Unix 4.0 system (to 4.0b). The
box is a DEC 3000/400. Here is what I did:

Installed the Firmware Update V3.8
# shutdown now
# /sbin/bcheckrc
# /sbin/installupdate -i /dev/rz4c

The first installupdate failed because /home was a link not a directory, so I
made it into a directory and did the installupdate again. This time after
about 7 minutes of

  Checking current state of system

I see one instance of the message

  NFS2 server cars1 not responding still trying

and an hour later, the installupdate is *still* checking the current state of
the system. As far as I know, cars1 is only mounted by the automounter and
nothing I am doing should cause it to be mounted. Also, cars1 is up.
/ and /usr are both AdvFS.

I am afraid to interrupt the update.

How can I recover?

Thanks in advance.

                                   --Harvey
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