Subject: Re: [vserver] CentOS 5.3 host update/upgrade
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@cyber-office.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:08:07 -0700

John Alberts wrote:
> 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.

WOW, great!  I'm coming from 5.2.  As I think on it, one of the systems 
   was a 5.0 or 5.1 and somewhere along the line became a 5.2.  Should 
keep better records but everything works so well I almost never have to 
go back and point fingers -- at myself. :-)

I have a _less_ used system I'll try first.

My thanks to you and John Sullivan for doing the bleeding!


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Rod
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> 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
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>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
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