Hi Troy,

On Feb 4, 2011, at 15:33, Troy Dawson wrote:

> We have had alot of good testing, and thus far there haven't been any show stoppers.
> 
> Unless something comes up, we will release this errata to all of SL5 on Wednesday February 8, 2011

we were made aware of this issue: http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/issues/detail?id=305

I wouldn't consider it a showstopper, but it seems this is used by at least one LHC experiment (which should have a workaround in place now ;-).

- Stephan

> 
> Thanks
> Troy
> 
> On 01/20/2011 11:30 AM, Troy J Dawson wrote:
>> Hello,
>> We have had our first kernel security update following the release of SL
>> 5.6.  We have tested it on a SL5.0 machine.  It installs, runs and
>> openafs works on it.  I would feel much better if others ran it to make
>> sure it works for them.
>> 
>> Can others test this kernel out on their machines to make sure it
>> doesn't break something we didn't expect.
>> 
>> I have also put the new kvm into the x86_64 testing area with the kernel.
>> 
>> To test or update
>> 
>> SL5
>> -------
>> 
>>           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/
>> 
>> kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Troy Dawson

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