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/