Subject: Re: [vserver] Upgrade CentOS 5.3 host to 5.4
From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:48:14 -0400

On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 15:47 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 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?
<snip>
We are currently using util-vserver-0.30.216-1.pre2793.el5.centos.
The repository upgrade would take us to 0.30.216-1.pre2855.el5.  That
breaks badly but I do not recall the specific error messages.  I do know
the vserver guests refuse to start and I've not pursued it aggressively
as we do plan to upgrade our kernels fairly soon.  Thanks - John