On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 18:52, John Pover wrote: > Recent updates have been causing more problems instead of solving problems : > - Update kernels from the 2.4.20-13.9-family caused kernel-panics, eth0 > hangups at shutdown, Audigy soundcards going silent etc. > (Question : I have experienced all of this so why was all this not seen > prior to release ? This is supposed to be Red Had Update and not Rawhide.) I have not experienced any of that....and I update regularly. Of course I don't have Audigy soundcards. Do you expect that Red Hat has all flavors of soundcards that they can test on prior to releasing an update? > - Update for the Xinetd-2.3.11-1.9.0 super-server effectively hinders/breaks > down carefully crafted rexecs/rlogins/rsh permissions which I need for my > OpenMosix-cluster. And who "carefully crafted" all of that? I will tell you what I do and maybe it can help you. Of course, it does require work and a small cost in SW. I keep backups of all of my production servers. I also have VMware. What I do is keep several VM's of my production servers as "test beds". I run VMware with non-persistent disks. Then when updates are scheduled I update my VM's and test to see if anything breaks. If it does....I either craft a workaround or bugzilla it and wait for a fix. > The first line of problems can be dealt with by installing the > 2.4.20-13.9.1-line of kernels from > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/testkernels/ (thanks Arjan) or by > reinstalling the 2.4.20-9 update kernel. The workings of the Xinetd > super-server can be restored by doing a force install of the original RH9 > Xinetd-2.3.10-6. > > The problem with this is that an update is supposed to be a upgrade in > security or bugfix so that means you should really apply the update, but > what if then nothing works as it should ? Nothing or somethings? > Has the functionality of the super-server been transferred elsewere ? If so > why have we not been told so in the errata ? Hard to tell what "functionality" you are referring to.... I've also never heard xinetd referred to as a "super-server". How do you mean that? -- http://www.shorewall.net Shorewall, for all your firewall needs
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