Stephen,

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:

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> Hi All,
> 	I understand that RAL has rebuilt the RHEL3 kernel
> 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL to back out a patch from RH which introduced a NFS kernel
> hang (see [1]). For BaBar this problem is causing significant problems on
> our interactive machines at SLAC. SLAC Computing Services are currently
> requiring kernels run on SL machines come from the official SL
> distribution.  For their RHEL3 machines they have a hot fix kernel from RH
> (named 2.4.21-27.8.EL) under their support agreement (which includes much
> more than just reversing the bad patch RH introduced) so all the RHEL3
> machines at SLAC don't have a problem.
> 	I have personal misgiving about SL actually shipping kernels that
> are not just a rebuild of the RHEL kernels but this problem is interfering
> with physics productivity and a solution of some kind must be found. I
> also understand that RAL passed the changes along last week to the SL
> maintainers (I think they called it 2.4.21-27.0.2ELSDR). So my questions
> are;
> 
> 1. Will this kernel will be released officially from Scientific Linux?

It will be released as a /contrib entry.  This allows those that have the 
issue to have a kernel with a solution and those who do not have the 
problem to use the standard Upstream Vendor rebuilt kernel.

 > 
> 2. If so, when?

I rebuilt it last week.  Got busy getting x86_64 out and Troy was out of 
town last week so did not get it out last week as hoped.  Easily by end of 
this week, most likely sooner.

I believe it is true that the Update 5 kernel is to have this bug fixed.  
Is this true?

-Connie Sieh

 > 
> 	I would be very grateful for fast and frank feedback.
> 
> 						regards,
> 
> 						Stephen.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138182
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