Scientific Linux 4.1 test(40rolling) for i386/x86 June 20, 2005
This includes Update 1
See comments/issues/test reports to [log in to unmask]
Please read the Upstream vendor release notes. I have attached them.
Available from
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson
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Changes compared to SL 40 i386
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ipw2100-firmware-1.3-5.noarch.rpm
ipw2200-firmware-2.2-5.noarch.rpm
Firmware for the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100 and 2200 Driver.
Please read the license that comes in the rpm carefully.
java-1.4.2-sun-compat-1.4.2.08-2jpp.i586.rpm
This package provides JPackage compatibility symlinks and
directories for Sun's JDK rpm.
j2sdk-1.4.2_08-fcs.i586.rpm
This packages is the java sdk from sun.
It's license is found at misc/licenses/j2sdk-1.4.2-x.license
To have all of it's links (including plugins) setup correctly you should
also install java-1.4.2-sun-compat
So the easiest thing to do is
yum install java-1.4.2-sun-compat
as it will automatically pull in the current j2sdk-1.4.2 rpm.
OpenAFS
As of Scientific Linux 4.1 OpenAFS is working on all architectures.
Some architectures may work better or faster than others, but all work.
openafs-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-client-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-compat-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-debug-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-devel-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-kernel-source-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-kpasswd-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-krb5-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
openafs-server-1.3.82-3.SL.i386.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-11.EL-1.3.82-3.SL.i686.rpm
kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-11.ELsmp-1.3.82-3.SL.i686.rpm
openafs-firstboot-1.2.11-5.SL.noarch.rpm
yum-conf-4.1-1.SL.noarch.rpm
Updated for 41
sl-release-4.1-3.noarch.rpm
Fixes /etc/redhat-release containing "Release" vs "release"
Includes SL.releasenote
pam_krb5-2.1.2-1.SL.1.i386.rpm
The pam_krb5 pam module had several bugs in it, most of
them were triggered when AFS was installed. This resolves
a majority of them.
If you have kerberos enabled, and AFS installed, and you are
finding that your login's are taking a long time, then you
will want to put "ignore_afs = true" in the pam section of
your /etc/krb5.conf file. You will not get an AFS token
when you authenticate, but you weren't before either.
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ERRATA rebuilt from SRPMS
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apr-0.9.4-24.3.i386.rpm
apr-devel-0.9.4-24.3.i386.rpm
arpwatch-2.1a13-10.RHEL4.i386.rpm
authconfig-4.6.10-rhel4.1.i386.rpm
authconfig-gtk-4.6.10-rhel4.1.i386.rpm
autofs-4.1.3-131.i386.rpm
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13.i386.rpm
bootparamd-0.17-19.RHEL4.i386.rpm
bzip2-1.0.2-13.EL4.2.i386.rpm
bzip2-devel-1.0.2-13.EL4.2.i386.rpm
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-13.EL4.2.i386.rpm
chkconfig-1.3.13.2-1.i386.rpm
coreutils-5.2.1-31.1.i386.rpm
cpp-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
crash-3.10-11.i386.rpm
cvs-1.11.17-7.RHEL4.i386.rpm
cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
cyrus-imapd-devel-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
cyrus-imapd-murder-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
cyrus-imapd-nntp-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
dbus-0.22-12.EL.2.i386.rpm
dbus-devel-0.22-12.EL.2.i386.rpm
dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.2.i386.rpm
dbus-python-0.22-12.EL.2.i386.rpm
dbus-x11-0.22-12.EL.2.i386.rpm
devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.4.i386.rpm
devhelp-0.9.2-2.4.5.i386.rpm
devhelp-devel-0.9.2-2.4.4.i386.rpm
devhelp-devel-0.9.2-2.4.5.i386.rpm
device-mapper-1.01.01-1.RHEL4.i386.rpm
dhclient-3.0.1-38_EL4.i386.rpm
dhcp-3.0.1-38_EL4.i386.rpm
dhcp-devel-3.0.1-38_EL4.i386.rpm
diskdumputils-1.0.1-5.i386.rpm
dmraid-1.0.0.rc6.1-3_RHEL4_U1.i386.rpm
e2fsprogs-1.35-12.1.EL4.i386.rpm
e2fsprogs-devel-1.35-12.1.EL4.i386.rpm
elfutils-0.97-7.i386.rpm
elfutils-devel-0.97-7.i386.rpm
elfutils-libelf-0.97-7.i386.rpm
elfutils-libelf-devel-0.97-7.i386.rpm
elinks-0.9.2-3.2.i386.rpm
ethereal-0.10.11-1.EL4.1.i386.rpm
ethereal-gnome-0.10.11-1.EL4.1.i386.rpm
evolution-2.0.2-16.i386.rpm
evolution-connector-2.0.2-5.i386.rpm
evolution-data-server-1.0.2-7.i386.rpm
evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-7.i386.rpm
evolution-devel-2.0.2-16.i386.rpm
firefox-1.0.3-1.4.1.i386.rpm
firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1.i386.rpm
fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-cyrillic-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-syriac-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
fonts-xorg-truetype-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
gaim-1.2.1-6.el4.i386.rpm
gaim-1.3.1-0.el4.i386.rpm
gcc-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
gcc-c++-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
gcc-g77-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
gcc-gnat-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
gcc-java-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
gcc-objc-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
gdb-6.3.0.0-0.31.i386.rpm
gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.1.i386.rpm
gedit-2.8.1-4.i386.rpm
gedit-devel-2.8.1-4.i386.rpm
gftp-2.0.17-5.i386.rpm
glibc-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
glibc-2.3.4-2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
glibc-profile-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
glibc-utils-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
nptl-devel-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
nptl-devel-2.3.4-2.9.i686.rpm
nscd-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.1.i386.rpm
gnutls-devel-1.0.20-3.2.1.i386.rpm
gsl-1.5-2.rhel4.i386.rpm
gsl-devel-1.5-2.rhel4.i386.rpm
gzip-1.3.3-15.rhel4.i386.rpm
hotplug-2004_04_01-7.5.i386.rpm
httpd-2.0.52-12.ent.i386.rpm
httpd-devel-2.0.52-12.ent.i386.rpm
httpd-manual-2.0.52-12.ent.i386.rpm
httpd-suexec-2.0.52-12.ent.i386.rpm
hwbrowser-0.19-0.EL4.2.noarch.rpm
hwdata-0.146.10.EL-1.noarch.rpm
iiimf-csconv-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-docs-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-emacs-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-gnome-im-switcher-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-gtk-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-le-canna-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-le-hangul-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-le-sun-thai-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-le-unit-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-libs-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-libs-devel-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-server-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
iiimf-x-12.1-13.EL.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-6.0.7.1-12.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-c++-6.0.7.1-12.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.0.7.1-12.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-devel-6.0.7.1-12.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-perl-6.0.7.1-12.i386.rpm
initscripts-7.93.13.EL-2.i386.rpm
kdelibs-3.3.1-3.10.i386.rpm
kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-3.10.i386.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.66.i386.rpm
kudzu-1.1.95.11-2.i386.rpm
kudzu-devel-1.1.95.11-2.i386.rpm
libaio-0.3.103-3.i386.rpm
libaio-devel-0.3.103-3.i386.rpm
libf2c-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libgcc-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libgcj-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libgcj-devel-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libgnat-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libobjc-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libpcap-0.8.3-10.RHEL4.i386.rpm
libstdc++-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-22.1.i386.rpm
libtool-1.5.6-4.EL4.1.i386.rpm
libtool-libs-1.5.6-4.EL4.1.i386.rpm
lsof-4.72-1.1.i386.rpm
lvm2-2.01.08-1.0.RHEL4.i386.rpm
man-pages-ja-20041215-1.EL4.0.noarch.rpm
mikmod-3.1.6-32.EL4.i386.rpm
mikmod-devel-3.1.6-32.EL4.i386.rpm
mkinitrd-4.2.1.3-1.i386.rpm
mod_auth_mysql-2.6.1-2.2.i386.rpm
mod_ssl-2.0.52-12.ent.i386.rpm
mozilla-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-chat-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-devel-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-mail-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-nspr-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-nss-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.8-1.4.1.i386.rpm
mysql-4.1.10a-2.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
mysql-bench-4.1.10a-2.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
mysql-devel-4.1.10a-2.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
mysql-server-4.1.10a-2.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
nasm-0.98.38-3.EL4.i386.rpm
nasm-doc-0.98.38-3.EL4.i386.rpm
nasm-rdoff-0.98.38-3.EL4.i386.rpm
netdump-0.7.7-3.i386.rpm
netdump-server-0.7.7-3.i386.rpm
net-tools-1.60-37.EL4.6.i386.rpm
nss_ldap-226-6.i386.rpm
ntsysv-1.3.13.2-1.i386.rpm
openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.4.i386.rpm
openmotif-2.2.3-9.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
openmotif-devel-2.2.3-9.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
openssh-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.4.i386.rpm
openssh-askpass-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.4.i386.rpm
openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.4.i386.rpm
openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.4.i386.rpm
openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.4.i386.rpm
openssl096b-0.9.6b-22.3.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.7a-43.2.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.7a-43.2.i686.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.7a-43.2.i386.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.7a-43.2.i386.rpm
pam-0.77-66.5.i386.rpm
pam-devel-0.77-66.5.i386.rpm
pango-1.6.0-9.i386.rpm
pango-devel-1.6.0-9.i386.rpm
pciutils-2.1.99.test8-3.1.i386.rpm
pciutils-devel-2.1.99.test8-3.1.i386.rpm
pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-3.2.i386.rpm
perl-Cyrus-2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
php-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-devel-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-domxml-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-gd-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-imap-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-odbc-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-pear-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-snmp-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.6.i386.rpm
policycoreutils-1.18.1-4.3.i386.rpm
popt-1.9.1-9_nonptl.i386.rpm
postgresql-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-contrib-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-devel-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-docs-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-jdbc-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-libs-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-odbc-7.3-8.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-pl-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-python-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-server-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-tcl-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
postgresql-test-7.4.8-1.RHEL4.1.i386.rpm
procps-3.2.3-8.1.i386.rpm
psacct-6.3.2-35.rhel4.i386.rpm
redhat-lsb-1.3-10.EL.i386.rpm
rpm-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm-build-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm-devel-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm-libs-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm
rpm-python-4.3.3-9_nonptl.i386.rpm
rsh-0.17-25.3.i386.rpm
rsh-server-0.17-25.3.i386.rpm
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.88.noarch.rpm
selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.88.noarch.rpm
sharutils-4.2.1-22.2.i386.rpm
squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9.i386.rpm
strace-4.5.9-2.EL4.i386.rpm
sysreport-1.3.15-2.noarch.rpm
system-config-kickstart-2.5.16.1-1.noarch.rpm
system-config-lvm-0.9.24-1.0.noarch.rpm
tcpdump-3.8.2-10.RHEL4.i386.rpm
telnet-0.17-31.EL4.3.i386.rpm
telnet-server-0.17-31.EL4.3.i386.rpm
ttfonts-ja-1.2-36.EL4.0.noarch.rpm
tzdata-2005f-1.EL4.noarch.rpm
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-doc-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm
Scientific Linux 4.1 Release Notes
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Introduction
The following topics are covered in this document:
o Changes to the Scientific Linux installation program (Anaconda)
o General information
o Changes to drivers and hardware support
o Changes to packages
Installation Related Notes
The following section includes information specific to installation of
Scientific Linux and the Anaconda installation program.
Note
In order to upgrade an already-installed Scientific Linux 4.x system
to 4.1, you must use yum or apt to update those packages that
have changed.
You may use Anaconda to perform a fresh installation of Scientific
Linux 4.1 or to perform an upgrade from the latest updated version
of Scientific Linux 3.0.x to Scientific Linux 4.x.
General Information
This section contains general information not specific to any other
section of this document.
o The openssh-3.9p1 package included in Scientific Linux 4.x
introduced two different modes of X11 forwarding: trusted and
untrusted. In the default Scientific Linux 4.x configuration,
passing the -X flag to /usr/bin/ssh (or using the "ForwardX11 on"
configuration option) enables untrusted X11 forwarding. This mode
restricts the X11 protocol to prevent a malicious application using a
forwarded SSH connection from compromising the security of the local
X11 server (for example, by performing keystroke monitoring); but few
X11 applications are usable in this mode.
In Scientific Linux 4.1, the default configuration of
the openssh client has been changed such that passing the -X flag
enables trusted X11 forwarding. The trusted forwarding mode allows all
X applications to work correctly when forwarded over an SSH
connection; but, as with previous releases of Scientific
Linux, it should only be used when invoking trusted applications.
Important
X11 forwarding is disabled by default in Scientific Linux 4.x,
which differs from previous Scientific Linux 3.0.x releases such
that attempting to run a malicious X11 application over an ssh
connection cannot compromise the local X11 server. You should only use
X11 forwarding when connecting to trusted servers.
o Scientific Linux 4.1 now includes the diskdump
facility,which can serve as an alternative to (or be used in
conjunction with) the netdump facility.
The diskdump facility for i386 systems currently support the aic7xxx,
aic79xx, mpt fusion, megaraid, ata_piix, and sata_promise devices. On
ia64 systems, the aic7xxx, aic79xx, mpt fusion, and sata_promise
devices are supported. On AMD64 and Intel(R) EM64T systems, the
aic7xxx, aic79xx, mpt fusion, megaraid, sata_promise, and ata_piix
devices are supported. Finally, on PPC64 systems, the ipr and
sym53c8xx_2 devices are supported.
Note
The megaraid and SATA devices are newly supported in
Scientific Linux 4.1.
Usage of the diskdump facility requires a dedicated disk device or
disk partitions that are large enough to contain all physical system
memory. In the event of a system crash, memory will be written to the
configured disk location. Upon subsequent reboot, the data will be
copied from the configured disk location and formatted into a vmcore
file, identical in functionality to that created by the netdump
facility, and stored in the unique subdirectory /var/crash/. The
vmcore file may be analyzed using the crash(8) utility.
Important
The diskdump facility may fail to write a dump file if cluster mode is
enabled on megaraid adapters. You can disable cluster mode on megaraid
adapters using the device's WebBIOS utility. Consult your manufacturer
documentation for more information on using WebBIOS.
The kernel modules required for the diskdump facility are
automatically included in the Scientific Linux 4.x kernel. The
associated user-space diskdump package is named diskdumputils-1.0.1-5,
and like netdump, is installed by default.
The appropriate disk location must first be configured and then
preformatted for use. After formatting, the diskdump facility may be
turned on with chkconfig(8), and then the service must be started.
Detailed documentation concerning configuration and user tasks is
included with the diskdumputils at the following:
/usr/share/doc/diskdumputils-1.0.1-5/README
Further information can be found in the diskdumpfmt(8),
diskdumpctl(8), and savecore(8) man pages.
Kernel Notes
This section contains notes relating to the Scientific Linux 4.1 kernel.
o An issue that causes USB mice to stop responding after a few hours of
use has been discovered on certain systems. A BIOS setting that
enables USB emulation causes 2.6 kernel mouse driving to freeze, which
necessitates either changing to a virtual console using Ctrl-Alt-Fx
then switching back to the graphical desktop or unplugging and
re-plugging the mouse in order to regain functionality.
To prevent the freezing of USB mice, it is recommended to disable USB
Emulation support (also called USB Legacy Support) in the system's
BIOS. Refer to your system manufacturer documentation for more
information about finding and disabling this BIOS setting.
o The Scientific Linux 4.1 kernel automatically disables
NUMA optimizations (numa=off) by default on systems using the AMD64
dual core processor. This ensures stable operation across multiple
systems where each has a different system BIOS implementation for
reporting dual core processors.
Users have the ability to safely override this default for a system
where the manufacturer has stated conformance with the reporting of
dual core processors as expected by Scientific Linux 4.1 kernel.
Users can override the numa=off default by specifying numa=on on the
Linux boot prompt or on the active kernel line in the grub.conf file.
If the system fails to boot after enabling this function, remove the
override and retry it. This limitation is expected to be removed in a
future Scientific Linux 4.x update.
Changes to Drivers and Hardware Support
This update includes bug fixes for a number of drivers. The more
significant driver updates are listed below. In some cases, the original
driver has been preserved under a different name, and is available as a
non-default alternative for organizations that wish to migrate their
driver configuration to the latest versions at a later time.
Note
The migration to the latest drivers should be completed before the next
Scientific Linux update is applied, because in most cases only one
older-revision driver will be preserved for each update.
The following device drivers are updated in Scientific Linux 4.1:
o Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel HBA (lpfc driver)
o LSI Logic MegaRAID Controller family (megaraid_mbox driver)
o Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100/2200 adapters (ieee80211/ipw2100/ipw2200
drivers)
o Broadcom Tigon3 (tg3 driver)
o Intel(R) Pro/100 Adapter family (e100 driver)
o Intel(R) PRO/1000 Adapters (e1000 driver)
o Serial ATA (SATA) devices (sata driver)
o Neterion 10GB Ethernet adapter (s2io driver)
o The kernel shipped with Scientific Linux 4.1 includes
the new megaraid_mbox driver from LSI Logic, which replaces the
megaraid driver. The megaraid_mbox driver has an improved design, is
compatible with the 2.6 kernel, and includes support for the latest
hardware. However, megaraid_mbox does not support some of the older
hardware that was supported by the megaraid driver.
Adapters with the following PCI vendor ID and device ID pairs are not
supported by the megaraid_mbox driver:
vendor, device
0x101E, 0x9010
0x101E, 0x9060
0x8086, 0x1960
The lspci -n command can be used to display the IDs for adapters
installed in a particular machine. Products with these IDs are known
by (but not limited to) the following model names:
o Broadcom 5820
o Dell PERC (dual-channel fast/wide SCSI) RAID controller
o Dell PERC2/SC (single-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller
o Dell PERC2/DC (dual-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller
o Dell CERC (four-channel ATA/100) RAID controller
o DRAC 1
o MegaRAID 428
o MegaRAID 466
o MegaRAID Express 500
o HP NetRAID 3Si and 1M
Note
Both Dell and LSI Logic have indicated that they no longer support these
models in the 2.6 kernel. As a result, these adapters are no longer
supported in Scientific Linux 4.1.
o Scientific Linux 4.1 provides support for disk devices
that are larger than 2 terabytes (TB). Although there is limited
support for this feature in the Scientific Linux 4.0 release,
4.1 contains many improvements (both in user space programs and
in the kernel). In general, 4.1 is considered a requirement for
support of disk devices larger than 2 TB.
Please note the following guidelines and restrictions related to large
device support:
. Typical disk devices are addressed in units of 512 byte blocks. The
size of the address in the SCSI command determines the maximum device
size. The SCSI command set includes commands that have 16-bit block
addresses (device size is limited to 2 GB), 32-bit block addresses
(limited to addressing 2 TB), and 64-bit block addresses. The SCSI
subsystem in the 2.6 kernel has support for commands with 64-bit block
addresses. To support disks larger then 2 TB, the Host Bus Adapter
(HBA), the HBA driver, and the storage device must also support 64-bit
block address. We have tested the QLogic qla2300 driver and the
Emulex lpfc driver, included in Scientific Linux 4.1,
on an 8 TB logical unit on a Winchester Systems FX400 (rev. 3.42B and
above is required).
. The commonly-used MS-DOS partition table format can not be used on
devices larger than 2 TB. For devices larger than 2 TB, the GPT
partition table format must be used. The parted utility must be used
for the creation and management of GPT partitions. To create a GPT
partition, use the parted command mklabel gpt.
Scientific Linux requires that all block devices be initialized with a valid
partition table, even if there is a single partition encompassing the
entire device. This requirement exists to prevent potential problems
caused by erroneous or unintended partition tables on the device.
. The Anaconda installer currently only supports GPT partition tables
on the Itanium(TM) architecture. As a result, it is not possible to
install or format devices that are larger that 2 TB with Anaconda,
except on Itanium(TM) platforms.
. The / and /boot directories must be located on devices that are 2 TB
in size or less.
. Various issues with LVM2 on large devices are fixed in
Scientific Linux 4.1. Do not use LVM2 on devices larger than 2
TB prior to installing 4.1.
As noted above, Scientific Linux requires that a partition table be written to
the block device, even when it is used as part of an LVM2 Volume
Group. In this case, you may create a single partition that spans the
entire device. Then, be sure to specify the full partition name (for
example, /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda), when you use the pvcreate and
vgcreate commands.
. The maximum size disk that can be a member of an md software RAID
set is 2 TB. The md RAID device itself can be larger than 2 TB.
Devices have been tested up to 8 TB.
. Various issues with e2fsprogs that occur on devices larger than 4 TB
are addressed in Scientific Linux 4.1. Prior to 4.1,
these issues can be worked around by specifying mke2fs -b 4096 when
making an ext2 or ext3 filesystem. The workaround is not necessary in
4.1.
The ext2 and ext3 filesystems have an internal limit of 8 TB. Devices
up to this limit have been tested.
You may want to use the mke2fs -T largefile4 command to speed up the
creation of large filesystems.
. The GFS filesystem is limited to 16 TB on 32-bit systems, and 8
exabytes (EB) with 64-bit systems. GFS filesystem
sizes up to 8 TB have been tested.
. NFS partitions greater than 2 TB have been tested and are supported.
. Scientific Linux 4.1 user space tools are compiled
for large file support. However, it is not possible to test every
program in this mode. Please file a problem report if issues arise
when using the tools for large file support.
. The inn program does not function correctly with devices larger than
2 TB. This will be addressed in a future release of Scientific Linux.
Changes to Packages
This section contains listings of packages that have been updated or added
to Scientific Linux 4.x as part of 4.1.
The following packages have been updated from the original release of
Scientific Linux 4.0:
o HelixPlayer
o ImageMagick
o ImageMagick-c++
o ImageMagick-c++-devel
o ImageMagick-devel
o ImageMagick-perl
o alsa-lib
o alsa-lib-devel
o anaconda
o anaconda-product
o anaconda-runtime
o apr
o apr-devel
o arpwatch
o authconfig
o authconfig-gtk
o autofs
o binutils
o bootparamd
o chkconfig
o comps-4AS
o coreutils
o cpio
o cpp
o crash
o cups
o cups-devel
o cups-libs
o curl
o curl-devel
o dbus
o dbus-devel
o dbus-glib
o dbus-python
o dbus-x11
o devhelp
o devhelp-devel
o device-mapper
o diskdumputils
o dmraid
o e2fsprogs
o e2fsprogs-devel
o elinks
o emacs
o emacs-common
o emacs-el
o emacs-leim
o emacs-nox
o enscript
o ethereal
o ethereal-gnome
o evolution
o evolution-connector
o evolution-data-server
o evolution-data-server-devel
o evolution-devel
o exim
o exim-doc
o exim-mon
o exim-sa
o firefox
o fonts-xorg-100dpi
o fonts-xorg-75dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-100dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-14-75dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-100dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-15-75dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-100dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-2-75dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-100dpi
o fonts-xorg-ISO8859-9-75dpi
o fonts-xorg-base
o fonts-xorg-cyrillic
o fonts-xorg-syriac
o fonts-xorg-truetype
o gaim
o gcc
o gcc-c++
o gcc-g77
o gcc-gnat
o gcc-java
o gcc-objc
o gdb
o gdk-pixbuf
o gdk-pixbuf-devel
o gdm
o glibc
o glibc-common
o glibc-devel
o glibc-headers
o glibc-profile
o glibc-utils
o gpdf
o gsl
o gsl-devel
o gtk2
o gtk2-devel
o hotplug
o htdig
o htdig-web
o httpd
o httpd-devel
o httpd-manual
o httpd-suexec
o hwbrowser
o hwdata
o iiimf-csconv
o iiimf-docs
o iiimf-emacs
o iiimf-gnome-im-switcher
o iiimf-gtk
o iiimf-le-canna
o iiimf-le-hangul
o iiimf-le-sun-thai
o iiimf-le-unit
o iiimf-libs
o iiimf-libs-devel
o iiimf-server
o iiimf
o initscripts
o ipsec-tools
o java-1.4.2-gcj-compat
o java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel
o kdegraphics
o kdegraphics-devel
o kdelibs
o kdelibs-devel
o kernel
o kernel-devel
o kernel-doc
o kernel-hugemem
o kernel-hugemem-devel
o kernel-smp
o kernel-smp-devel
o kernel-utils
o krb5-devel
o krb5-libs
o krb5-server
o krb5-workstation
o kudzu
o kudzu-devel
o libaio
o libaio-devel
o libexif
o libexif-devel
o libf2c
o libgcc
o libgcj
o libgcj-devel
o libgnat
o libobjc
o libpcapk
o libstdc++
o libstdc++-devel
o libtiff
o libtiff-devel
o libtool
o libtool-libs
o lsof
o lvm2
o mailman
o man-pages-ja
o mod_auth_mysql
o mod_python
o mod_ssl
o mozilla
o mozilla-chat
o mozilla-devel
o mozilla-dom-inspector
o mozilla-js-debugger
o mozilla-mail
o mozilla-nspr
o mozilla-nspr-devel
o mozilla-nss
o mozilla-nss-devel
o mysql
o mysql-bench
o mysql-devel
o mysql-server
o net-tools
o netdump
o netdump-server
o nptl-devel
o nscd
o nss_ldap
o ntsysv
o openoffice.org
o openoffice.org-i18n
o openoffice.org-kde
o openoffice.org-libs
o openssh
o openssh-askpass
o openssh-askpass-gnome
o openssh-clients
o openssh-server
o pam
o pam-devel
o pango
o pango-devel
o pciutils
o pciutils-devel
o pcmcia-cs
o perl
o perl-DBI
o perl-suidperl
o php
o php-devel
o php-domxml
o php-gd
o php-imap
o php-ldap
o php-mbstring
o php-mysql
o php-ncurses
o php-odbc
o php-pear
o php-pgsql
o php-snmp
o php-xmlrpc
o policycoreutils
o popt
o postfix
o postfix-pflogsumm
o postgresql
o postgresql-contrib
o postgresql-devel
o postgresql-docs
o postgresql-jdbc
o postgresql-libs
o postgresql-odbc
o postgresql-pl
o postgresql-python
o postgresql-server
o postgresql-tcl
o postgresql-test
o procps
o psacct
o python
o python-devel
o python-docs
o python-tools
o redhat-lsb
o redhat-release
o rpm
o rpm-build
o rpm-devel
o rpm-libs
o rpm-python
o rpmdb-redhat
o rsh
o rsh-server
o selinux-policy-targeted
o selinux-policy-targeted-sources
o squid
o squirrelmail
o strace
o system-config-kickstart
o system-config-lvm
o tcpdump
o telnet
o telnet-server
o tetex
o tetex-afm
o tetex-doc
o tetex-dvips
o tetex-fonts
o tetex-latex
o tetex-xdvi
o thunderbird
o tkinter
o ttfonts-ja
o tzdata
o up2date
o up2date-gnome
o vim-X11
o vim-common
o vim-enhanced
o vim-minimal
o xemacs
o xemacs-common
o xemacs-el
o xemacs-info
o xemacs-nox
o xloadimage
o xorg-x11
o xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
o xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU
o xorg-x11-Xdmx
o xorg-x11-Xnest
o xorg-x11-Xvfb
o xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
o xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel
o xorg-x11-devel
o xorg-x11-doc
o xorg-x11-font-utils
o xorg-x11-libs
o xorg-x11-sdk
o xorg-x11-tools
o xorg-x11-twm
o xorg-x11-xauth
o xorg-x11-xdm
o xorg-x11-xfs
o xpdf
The following new packages have been added to Scientific Linux 4.1:
o compat-libcom_err-1.0-5
The following packages have been removed from Scientific Linux 4.1:
o No packages have been removed.
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