I would do neither of those things. First, I would consider installing the updated RPMs in the updates directory at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/s390/
The rawhide stuff is not guaranteed in any way shape or form to leave your system in a usable state. Kind of last-resort type of stuff. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dave Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upgrade or Reinstall? 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.
