Subject: Re: [vserver] Upgrade CentOS 5.3 host to 5.4
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:47:52 +0100

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:17:44PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:34 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 16:20 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > >> Anyone running CentOS as their host distribution tried a "yum update" 
> > >> that would include the upgrade to CentOS 5.4?

> > >> If what kind of results did you get and did you have any problems?

> > >> TIA,
> > >> Rod
> > > I did quite a while ago and I don't remember the details.  I think I had
> > > to back-level all the util-vserver packages but I believe that is from
> > > the dhozac repository and had nothing to do with the 5.4 upgrade.

> > Thanks John.

> > I have Daniel's repo enabled by default so the new util-vserver* 
> > packages show up plus a new yum.

> > The last time I upgraded (5.2 to 5.3) I got caught by the old yum.  I've 
> > excluded it from the regular repos so should be safe now.

> > \\||/
> > Rod
> The newer util-vserver packages may give you grief depending on your
> kernel.  We are still running 2.6.28.7-vs2.3.0.36.7 and our vservers
> will not start if we use the latest util-vserver packages.  

interesting, what does 'latest util-vserver' mean for you?
and do you have any error messages produced by them?

TIA,
Herbert

> We had to downgrade - John