I have tried this on several test machines yesterday and 6 production
machines today and it is working fine thus far.
(Xen kernel, 32 and 64 bit, plus regular kernel on my laptop, 64 bit).

Steve


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> The new security update for SL5 has been built and is currently being tested.
> I plan on releasing this kernel tomorrow.  But I also know that alot of 
> people want/need it as soon a possible, so I have put it into the general 
> testing area so people can install it if they want.
>
> It is best to remove SL_fix_bad_km before updating your kernel.
> Removing SL_fix_bad_km will not put the bad kernel modules back.
> I have also updated SL_fix_bad_km so that it is empty and doesn't have it's 
> script, but it is really best to remove it.
>
> To test or update
>
> SL5
> -------
> If you have SL_fix_bad_km installed
>  rpm -e SL_fix_bad_km
> fi
>
>   yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\*
>
> or you can download rpm's by hand at
>
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/kernel/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/kernel/
>
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson
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