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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SunSpot who wrote (2250)	4/19/2000 12:30:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 2615

Have you searched your harddisk for .rpmsave files etc.? Yes, each time I've upgraded (5.2->6.0->6.1->6.2) I reconcile the .rpmsave files to the new conf files. I've had problems on the other two upgrades with ppp but both times it was due to some ppp change and was easily corrected. This is the first time that my routing table got messed up. After ruling out ppp I next though it might be ipchains screwing up (I noticed that this was one of the packages upgraded) but since I haven't had the time yet to do much with the firewalling it was easy to rule that out. I then started a detailed review of the ppp how-to in case I'd missed something there and that's when I caught the routing table problem. Last night I started a find / -exec fgrep "route add" {} \; -print > xxx so hopefully I can at least find a possible culprit. This takes a long time on a 486-75 so I didn't have time to check it before I went to bed.

To: SunSpot who wrote (2250)	4/19/2000 4:25:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

It looks like I get to upgrade the kernel again anyway: redhat.com <snip> 1. Topic: Red Hat, Intel and Dell have uncovered a problem with the Red Hat Linux 6.2 for the x86 (Intel) processor. This problem has been duplicated and confirmed in our lab, though we have had no reports from customers at large. This problem affects all OEM system manufacturers shipping Red Hat Linux 6.2 preinstalled on x86 processor-based systems. 2. Problem description: Under extremely heavy load, data corruption can occur if a page fault occurs during a task switch between kernel space and user space on x86 platforms. This problem may affect customer systems, particularly systems that are swapping to disk very heavily (thrashing), or are otherwise very heavily loaded. Lightly loaded servers are unlikely to be affected. This issue affects all x86 compatible systems running the kernels listed below. Red Hat, Inc. suggests that all x86 systems running Red Hat Linux 6.2 and/or the 2.2.13-0.13, 2.2.14-5.0, and 2.2.14-6.1 kernels upgrade to this latest kernel release. <snip>