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Alan Bartlett schrieb:
> 2009/12/16 Jim Green <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> I'm trying to set up an SL5 client for a kerberos/LDAP/NFS4 server. I'm getting
>> a kernel panic on the client in certain situations (writing to a file
>> which I do not
>> own but do have group write permissions) and from the oops I think that this
>> is a kernel bug fixed in 2.6.20. Sadly, yum shows me only 2.6.18 kernels and
>> the problem persists on the most recent (2.6.18-164.6.1.el15)
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>> So to my question : How can one install a kernel >= 2.6.20 on SL5 ?
>> I couldn't find SL rpms/srpms and googling for the experience of others
>> wanting to do this turns up little useful info.
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> Jim,
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> Please read TUV's policy on backporting [1].
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> You should also realise it is not the mainline kernel-2.6.18 but is
> kernel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 with somewhere in the order of 2000 patches
> applied to the original mainline kernel. The "EXTRAVERSION" of
> "-164.6.1.el5" makes all the difference.
Yep, and there will be an 164.9.1 kernel in a few days which fix a oops in nfs4
client code, the release note from TUV just went out.
Sincerly,
Klaus
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