From: "Jim Green" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:59 AM
> 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 kerne ls > 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. The right way to fix this problem would be to file a bug against the kern el package so upstream can backport a fix. They add bugfixes and new featur es by patching the same kernel version so the release can keep the same vers ion throughout its lifetime while still remaining useful. I once got curious and tried compiling and running a newer Fedora kernel on my RHEL system, and while I got it to work, running a newer kernel versio n is generally a very bad idea because the rest of the system is built with the assumption that it's running under Linux 2.6.18. You would likely be shooting yourself in the foot. -- Garrett Holmstrom University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Systems Staff
