From: Kim Johansen (kim_at_webdealhosting.com)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 18:36:13 CET
From: Kim Johansen <kim@webdealhosting.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:36:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1196876173.4331.54.camel@lotta.webdeal.no> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Updates to sles10
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 18:28 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:21:52PM +0100, Kim Johansen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 17:52 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Kim Johansen wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 17:41 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 05:41:05PM +0100, Kim Johansen wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As I can see, there has not been any update for SLES10 lately. Does that
> > > > > > mean we all need to update to SLES10 SP1 to get the latest security
> > > > > > updates?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes.
> > > >
> > > > There is a bug in the ibmvscsi driver, it came together with SLES10 SP1.
> > > > It cause the system to be very unstable when updating to SP1. And it is
> > > > not possible to install sles10 SP1 on a LPAR when using vscsi. When will
> > > > this be fixed? It critical because we cant update to sles10 sp1 before
> > > > this is fixed.
> > >
> > > I am not aware of this specific bug. Do you have any kind of reference?
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tree;f=drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2b541f8f77fd339e4c5c5cbe8549b52445012704
>
> Large parts of this patch are applied in the SLES 10 SP1 codebase at least.
> The version of the ibmvscsi driver in the SP1 tree is 1.5.8 too.
>
> Not sure if this has been fixed after your tests or not, but there were some
> vscsi fixes.
I will see if I can find more detailed description of the problem, and
how to reproduce it. A update for SP1 would not help because it not
possible to install SLES10 SP1 on a LPAR using vscsi.
Updating to SP1 from SLES10 will you a lots of strange behaviour, like
md5sum's changes on all the files all the time.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
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