Alan Bartlett schrieb: > 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. 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