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