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Re: kernel >= 2.6.20 in SL5
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:03:19 +0000
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2009/12/16 Jim Green <[log in to unmask]>:

> 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)
>
> 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.

Jim,

Please read TUV's policy on backporting [1].

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.

Regards,
Alan.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/

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