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Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:55:43 +0200
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On Aug 25, 2009, at 17:41, Steven Timm wrote:

> 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).

The same here. We have these running on dozens of systems now,  
including several Xen hosts, Xen[U] paravirt VMs, PCs, servers, worker  
nodes. No laptops, though. No problems encountered. Rollout to a few  
hundred more systems is on its way.

- Stephan

> 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
>> --
>> __________________________________________________
>> Troy Dawson  [log in to unmask]  (630)840-6468
>> Fermilab  ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group
>> __________________________________________________
>>
>
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Steven C. Timm, Ph.D  (630) 840-8525
> [log in to unmask]  http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
> Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities,
> Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Assistant  
> Group Leader.

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