Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:51:13 -0500 This was a yum update from CentOS 5.1. All was fine except the problems with yum. The problems with yum were fixed with the patched rpm. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Roderick A. Anderson <raanders@cyber-office.net> wrote: > John Alberts wrote: >> >> I'm running CentOS 5.3 on the host and all guests now. The patched >> yum is working fine and I haven't had any stability issues at all. > > Thanks. Was this done as a yum update or a fresh install? > > > \\||/ > Rod > -- >> >> John >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, John A. Sullivan III >> <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:39 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >>>> >>>> Anyone (John?) running CentOS 5 as the host distribution? >>>> >>>> If so have any of you updated to CentOS 5.3? >>>> >>>> And ... John have you finished your tests on the patched yum? Results? >>>> Good, bad or ugly? :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> \\||/ >>>> Rod >>> >>> So far, it is working fine. Guest installations of both CentOS 5.3 and >>> Ubuntu 8.0.4 all ran fine. vyum from the host and yum from the guest >>> appear to be running fine. Cloning is fine. We are having a bit of an >>> issue with hashify but I do not believe this is at all related to yum. >>> >>> We did hit a problem with processes spinning out of control and not >>> being able to be killed without a hard boot of the host. Apparently >>> this is not an issue with yum or CentOS but rather the 2.6.28 kernel we >>> are running and it is supposedly fixed in 2.6.29 so we are eagerly >>> awaiting the final patch from vserver. There were compelling reasons >>> for us to use ext4 and we felt a little funny relying on the backport >>> into 2.6.18 which shipped with 5.3. We normally don't play this close >>> to the cutting edge so it has been an adventure! Thanks for all your >>> help - John >>> -- >>> John A. Sullivan III >>> Open Source Development Corporation >>> +1 207-985-7880 >>> jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com >>> >>> http://www.spiritualoutreach.com >>> Making Christianity intelligible to secular society >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- John Alberts