I installed a S/390 RH 7.2 system for a client back in Jan/Feb time frame.
Now the customer is having problems during his development, has searched
the redhat site and sent me the email below.
My question is....based on his comments, do I install the latest rawhide RH
7.2 ?
Or should I do individual RPM upgrades and/or PATCHES??
What are the considerations here??
(Note: This is a middleware developer system and does not necessarily
have to be "production" stable).
Thanks,
Dave
snip....
The issues which have come up are failures/hangs with Open Server (a pthread
based library we use as a multi-threaded application library), leaving all
sorts of nasty messages in /var/log/message and causes hangs, coredumps or
full passing of tests at random.
The machine appears rather sick, I tried to execute a command which was in
the beginning of my $path envir and it fired up a totally wrong executable
which lives in the trail of path settings. B.t.w: I have seen this before
on this machine.
and this...
"Just rebooted the box. Also went onto a RH mirror and found there are
updates
for RH 7.2/S390 which may be of interest. For one, both the kernel and glibc
have had major updates. The compiler has been patched again...
Maybe we should think/talk about installing latest updates and see how we
fare.
For the messages file, look for ostest_r and octest_r, particularly the
first.
It will give an impression of line of exceptions which an enduser app really
should _not_ do at all. Worries me, as these failures are always a precursor
for unpredictable behaviour.
