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Howdy, Running a round of updates from 6.3 to 6.4 and I'm seeing the following on all the servers. Want to make sure I'm not going to end up with a kernel panic if I reboot into the new kernel or have any other issues. Apr 22 11:10:21 www kdump: kexec: unloaded kdump kernel Apr 22 11:10:21 www kdump: stopped Apr 22 11:10:21 www kdump: mkdumprd: failed to make kdump initrd Apr 22

I've read that it's not recommended to automatically apply updates via yum-updated on production servers, but I keep encountering servers that have this enabled. Are any of you doing automatic yum updates on production servers in CentOS 5 via yum-updatesd? Have you experienced any negative side effects? The only thing I can think of is if say a client had a custom version of PHP

Greetings all, Running CentOS 6.5 x86_64 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64. (already booting with the irqpoll option in grub) Every few months I lose network connectivity and have to restart the server: in /var/log/messages: " Mar 7 18:54:21 backup03 kernel: irq 68: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Mar 7 18:54:21 backup03 kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted