Hi Troy, On Feb 4, 2011, at 15:33, Troy Dawson wrote:
> We have had alot of good testing, and thus far there haven't been any show > stoppers. > > Unless something comes up, we will release this errata to all of SL5 on > Wednesday February 8, 2011 we were made aware of this issue: http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/issues/detail?id=305 I wouldn't consider it a showstopper, but it seems this is used by at least one LHC experiment (which should have a workaround in place now ;-). - Stephan > > Thanks > Troy > > On 01/20/2011 11:30 AM, Troy J Dawson wrote: >> Hello, >> We have had our first kernel security update following the release of SL >> 5.6. We have tested it on a SL5.0 machine. It installs, runs and >> openafs works on it. I would feel much better if others ran it to make >> sure it works for them. >> >> Can others test this kernel out on their machines to make sure it >> doesn't break something we didn't expect. >> >> I have also put the new kvm into the x86_64 testing area with the kernel. >> >> To test or update >> >> SL5 >> ------- >> >> yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update kernel\* >> >> or you can download rpm's by hand at >> >> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/kernel/ >> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/kernel/ >> >> kernel-2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 >> >> Thanks >> Troy Dawson -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany