Re: [CentOS] kernel update/reboot best practice question

2017-02-27 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Mon, February 27, 2017 10:44 am, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 02/27/2017 08:21 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Quite some time ago I have noticed that kernel updated quite often "come >> in pairs". > > > Looking at the errata list for the kernel package on RHEL 6, I don't see > any such pattern. It

Re: [CentOS] kernel update/reboot best practice question

2017-02-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/27/2017 08:21 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Quite some time ago I have noticed that kernel updated quite often "come in pairs". Looking at the errata list for the kernel package on RHEL 6, I don't see any such pattern. It's certainly happened that kernel updates are released withing a cou

Re: [CentOS] kernel update does not update grub boot list ...

2016-01-26 Thread lejeczek
On 26/01/16 12:23, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote: Le 26/01/2016 12:53, lejeczek a écrit : .. in that expected way where newly installed kernel is set to boot as default. would you suggest where to look, what to check? In /etc/sysconfig/kernel : # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg

Re: [CentOS] kernel update does not update grub boot list ...

2016-01-26 Thread Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE
Le 26/01/2016 12:53, lejeczek a écrit : .. in that expected way where newly installed kernel is set to boot as default. would you suggest where to look, what to check? In /etc/sysconfig/kernel : # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=ye

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-25 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
mahmoud mansy wrote: > and the main problem is that i wanna take the RHCE and the best > suggested OS is centos not fedora and i wanna run it on my laptop > which i tried to do so with the centos 5.5 but there was so many > miisings like the wireless card driverr and the display card drivers as me

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, mahmoud mansy wrote: > hey guys, > i wanna update the kernel of thw centos 5.5,to the 2.6.32 version! > is there any compatablity issues with stuff like glibc or otheres! Someone suggested Fedora on the hardware and CentOS in a VM.. That works best if you're doing

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 18:42 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Oracle does, I know. Does RH? Yea they sure do in "mERG". There's a difference though one is a Throughput based kernel and one is realtime based with full preemption: 2.6.33.7-rt29.47.el5rt RT based 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 Throughput

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:42:38PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:03:34PM -0500, JohnS wrote: > > > > > Upgrading the kernel *can* work, but defeats the purpose of running an > > > enterprise OS. > > > > I find your statement to not be true at all. > > > > Upstream off

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:03:34PM -0500, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:33 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > Upgrading the kernel *can* work, but defeats the purpose of running an > > enterprise OS. > > I find your statement to not be true at all. > > Upstream offers two (2)

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 01:06 +0200, mahmoud mansy wrote: > more explanation plz! Nothing much ado about nothing to really explain. Just have to search google :-)... This is the other one [1] the source from upstream. Of which you have to find one built for CentOS like this one [2] exclusively :

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread mahmoud mansy
more explanation plz! On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:03 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:33 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > >> Upgrading the kernel *can* work, but defeats the purpose of running an >> enterprise OS. > > I find your statement to not be true at all. > > Upstream offers

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:33 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Upgrading the kernel *can* work, but defeats the purpose of running an > enterprise OS. I find your statement to not be true at all. Upstream offers two (2) different Enterprise Level kernels to pick, choose and play with. CentOS

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:40:56AM +0200, mahmoud mansy wrote: > ok,looks great but i wanna know what about the new centos6 support for > hardware will it be more oriented to desktops and laptops or what? It will likely work better with some of the newer hardware, but eventually will run into the

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread mahmoud mansy
ok,looks great but i wanna know what about the new centos6 support for hardware will it be more oriented to desktops and laptops or what? On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 at 12:26am, mahmoud mansy wrote > >> well,i meant to upgrade to the RHEL ker

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 at 12:26am, mahmoud mansy wrote > well,i meant to upgrade to the RHEL kernel and its module > ,libraries,headers if found of course but what i meant is there any > issue with that i.e no piece of software work with that module or > library>>etc, > > and the main problem is tha

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread mahmoud mansy
well,i meant to upgrade to the RHEL kernel and its module ,libraries,headers if found of course but what i meant is there any issue with that i.e no piece of software work with that module or library>>etc, and the main problem is that i wanna take the RHCE and the best suggested OS is centos not

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of mahmoud mansy > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 4:57 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] kernel update > > hey guys, > i wanna update the kernel of thw centos 5.5,to the 2

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Devin Reade wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:19:54 -0600: > The symptoms you describe could be a side effect of being previously hit by > and > . Thanks for the belated info, anyway. But this doesn't seem to

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-16 Thread Devin Reade
[I saw this thread in the mailing list archives, but wasn't subscribed at the time, so sorry it's not a proper follow-up.] The symptoms you describe could be a side effect of being previously hit by and .

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-7-2009 2:16 PM Robert spake the following: > William L. Maltby wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> >>> Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: >>> >>> /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reas

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:39:27 -0400: > The installonlypkgs and installonly_limit keywords. The first, according > to man yum.conf, defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, > kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported and the latter to 3. It seems to default t

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:01:43 -0400: > Hmmm... Maybe the *64 systems are different? No, they are the same in this respect. I'm not seeing any difference. There is a difference between systems (no matter which arch) when the /etc/grub.conf symlink got created. On all my sys

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 01:43 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:52:04 -0400: > > > AFAIK, my 5.3 is completely "box stock" in this area, and probably 98% > > of others too. I have no /etc/grub*. > > > >$ ls -l /etc/grub* > >ls: /etc/grub*: No such

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 01:43 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:44 -0500: > > > According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on > > x86 > > and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf > > And as I already mentioned in my first pos

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:52:04 -0400: > AFAIK, my 5.3 is completely "box stock" in this area, and probably 98% > of others too. I have no /etc/grub*. > >$ ls -l /etc/grub* >ls: /etc/grub*: No such file or directory > > I also checked my 4.6 Centos. It has the /boot

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:44 -0500: > According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on > x86 > and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf And as I already mentioned in my first posting this file *got* touched. The last modified date got changed, bu

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting Robert : > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > >> Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: > >> > >> > >>> /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some > reason > >>> it is not, correct it, or l

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
> Since *lots* of other folks have also upgraded w/NP, one makes a first > assumption that something must be slightly different on your node. s/your/Kai's/ #? > -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/lis

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:16 -0500, Robert wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > > > > > Well, JIC, make sure yoyr /boot/grub entries look like this. > > > > ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 May 9 2008 /boot/g

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: >> >> >>> /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some >>> reason >>> it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/g

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: > > > /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some > > reason > > it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf and see if > > the > > ke

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lincohn john wrote on Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:49:17 -0700 (PDT): > Well, you can always manually > edit the grub.conf file, right? sure, but it should work automatically. And did on all the other upgrades. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.c

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: > /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some > reason > it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf and see if the > kernel was added there. Sorry, I was talking about /boot/grub/grub.conf. I

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread lincohn john
, JohnS wrote: > From: JohnS > Subject: Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:17 AM > > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:35 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Just updated another machine t

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting JohnS : > > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:35 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Just updated another machine to 5.3, everything fine, but grub.conf wasn't > > updated to the 128 kernel. It got a new modified date and the kernel is > > there, but the content wasn't changed. /etc/sysconfig/kernel con

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:35 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Just updated another machine to 5.3, everything fine, but grub.conf wasn't > updated to the 128 kernel. It got a new modified date and the kernel is > there, but the content wasn't changed. /etc/sysconfig/kernel contains the > correct UPD

Re: [CentOS] Kernel update for Centos 4

2008-02-13 Thread Barry Brimer
Hi, I've noticed that we already have an updated kernel for the Centos 5. Any idea of when the same thing will happen for Centos 4 386 ? If you're referring to a new kernel to handle the vmsplice vulnerability, it is not needed, as this vulnerability does not affect CentOS 4 (or below) kerne