Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2010-05-12 Thread Michael Bontenackels
Hi Troy, does this security update also inlcude the patches for AMD Phenom II X6 CPUs to ensure the full performance of the 6-cores CPU with activated power management? Here is a link to a german article on heise-online dealing with that problem:

RE: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2010-05-12 Thread Kinzel, David
Hi Troy, does this security update also inlcude the patches for AMD Phenom II X6 CPUs to ensure the full performance of the 6-cores CPU with activated power management? Here is a link to a german article on heise-online dealing with that problem:

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-11-05 Thread Steven Timm
My early testing of kernel-xen 2.6.18-164.6.1 on 3 machines (dom0 and domU) shows no problems thus far. Steve On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: This has escalated overnight. Luckily I only have one last test, which I believe the kernel will pass. So test now, because this is kernel

TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-11-04 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, The new security update for SL5 has been built and is currently being tested. This has an important security fix. But it is also the first kernel since Update 4 that we plan on pushing out, and as such, we are being cautious. We plan on pushing this kernel out on Monday, November 9,

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-10-21 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi Klaus, On Oct 20, 2009, at 23:44, Klaus Steinberger wrote: Did you have success on Xen Servers with the 164.2.1 kernel ? Yes, 100% so far. I did see it crashing with xend starting up. Not sure if it's something special with my system. No problems here. Statistics is still limited

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-10-20 Thread Klaus Steinberger
Hi Stephan and Troy, On Oct 2, 2009, at 18:39, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Klaus and Stephan, Two problems I see with the kernel for 5.3.z 1 - Can't find it publically yet I did found it now. Somebody probably missed to pack it onto the usual places. Here it is:

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-10-09 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi Troy, On Oct 2, 2009, at 18:39, Troy Dawson wrote: Hi Klaus and Stephan, Two problems I see with the kernel for 5.3.z 1 - Can't find it publically yet sadly, that hasn't changed, so it's not actually an option. I stopped checking for it, and we're rolling out -164.2.1 - so far to some

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-10-02 Thread Klaus Steinberger
Hi Troy, did you notice, that there is probably also a errata kernel for 5.3 Sincerly, Klaus -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, soeben erreichte uns nachfolgendes RedHat Security Advisory. Wir geben diese Informationen unveraendert an Sie weiter.

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-10-02 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi Klaus, On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 14:04 +0200, Klaus Steinberger wrote: Hi Troy, did you notice, that there is probably also a errata kernel for 5.3 yes, I think that's the one we really want. Alas, I couldn't find the SRPM in a public place yet. Cheers, Stephan Sincerly, Klaus

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-08-25 Thread Steven Timm
I have tried this on several test machines yesterday and 6 production machines today and it is working fine thus far. (Xen kernel, 32 and 64 bit, plus regular kernel on my laptop, 64 bit). Steve On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: Hello, The new security update for SL5 has been built and

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-08-25 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Aug 25, 2009, at 17:41, Steven Timm wrote: I have tried this on several test machines yesterday and 6 production machines today and it is working fine thus far. (Xen kernel, 32 and 64 bit, plus regular kernel on my laptop, 64 bit). The same here. We have these running on dozens of systems

TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-08-24 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, The new security update for SL5 has been built and is currently being tested. I plan on releasing this kernel tomorrow. But I also know that alot of people want/need it as soon a possible, so I have put it into the general testing area so people can install it if they want. It is

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-01-28 Thread Troy Dawson
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: Hello, With Update 3, RedHat released a new kernel. This new kernel is also a security and bug fix kernel. I'm just a little hesitant to push it out yet because we've often had problems with new update kernels. So I'm

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-01-28 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi Troy, On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: [...] NOTE: I haven't gotten XFS (the file system) to compile yet for it. Removing the now conflicting definitions from the xfs header seems correct to me. Something

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-01-28 Thread Troy Dawson
Stephan Wiesand wrote: Hi Troy, On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: [...] NOTE: I haven't gotten XFS (the file system) to compile yet for it. Removing the now conflicting definitions from the xfs header seems

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-01-28 Thread Stephan Wiesand
Hi Troy, On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: Stephan Wiesand wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: I now have the newer ecryptfs-utils (and ecryptfs-utils-devel) in the testing area. There's a similar issue with cpuspeed. The new conflict doesn't work because they missed that

TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-01-27 Thread Troy Dawson
Hello, With Update 3, RedHat released a new kernel. This new kernel is also a security and bug fix kernel. I'm just a little hesitant to push it out yet because we've often had problems with new update kernels. So I'm putting it in the testing area and asking you all to give it a try. It's

Re: TESTING - kernel for SL5

2009-01-27 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Troy Dawson wrote: Hello, With Update 3, RedHat released a new kernel. This new kernel is also a security and bug fix kernel. I'm just a little hesitant to push it out yet because we've often had problems with new update kernels. So I'm putting it in the testing area