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?
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> \\||/
> 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
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>>> John A. Sullivan III
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>>> jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com
>>>
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>>>
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-- John AlbertsReceived on Thu Apr 16 16:52:34 2009