Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rose, Billy" <> | Subject | RE: PROBLEM: RedHat 7.2 Stock SMP Install | Date | Wed, 22 May 2002 11:10:21 -0500 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Doug McNaught [mailto:doug@wireboard.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:32 AM > To: Rose, Billy > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: PROBLEM: RedHat 7.2 Stock SMP Install > > > "Rose, Billy" <wrose@loislaw.com> writes: > > > I have an HP LPr Dual P-III 550 with 2 18G SCSI drives that locked > up. > > > Linux warnock 2.4.7-10smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT > 2001 i686 unknown > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > Try the latest errata kernel for 7.2 and see if it still happens. > There's a reason they release kernel update packages...
I looked on RH before sending the original post. There's a reason you don't upgrade a live RedHat machine running Tux for (what is listed to be) security fixes that do not pertain to a particular machine, without more knowledge of the crash. I have taken your advice (and Mr. Benjamin LaHaise's) and upgraded a _sandbox_ machine to see how Tux will behave during and after the upgrade. With Tux, simply upgrading/installing a new kernel is not easy as there are incompatibilities between different versions of the userspace and kernel space portions when version numbers are in a mixed state (i.e. the upgrade hoses everything and you fall back to the known kernel). Installing/upgrading to the latest errata kernel requires Tux's userspace stuff to be upgraded first... If the new kernel dies, my old kernel will still boot, but Tux may not work (the primary job of said server) because the userspace stuff is now incompatible. FYI, the machine in question typically handles 4X the requests as it's brethren NT machines next to it -- hats off to all you guys!
Billy Rose wrose@loislaw.com>
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