CentOS - Dec 2007 - take plunge and yum update to 4.6

Usually I am one of the first ones to do it

I have resisted this time...

It is almost the Holidays and out centos 4 boxes have been online for like 2
years or whatever

Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing
Centos$ servers and done a

yum update

or a

yum -y update

without any problems at all?

:-)

 - rh

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:17:31PM -0800, Robert - elists
alleged:
> Usually I am one of the first ones to do it
> 
> I have resisted this time...
> 
> It is almost the Holidays and out centos 4 boxes have been online for like
2
> years or whatever
> 
> Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing
> Centos$ servers and done a
> 
> yum update
> 
> or a
> 
> yum -y update
> 
> without any problems at all?
I just had one box panic during the udev update.  *sigh*

EIP was in sysfs_readdir while udevstart was running.


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> Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing
> Centos$ servers and done a
> 
> yum update
The only problem I had was the amount of disk space that was required
meant that the install phase failed.  So "yum update" would download
all
the rpm's but then fail.  Once I worked around that (moved the cache'd
rpms to another disk and symlink'd) then "yum update" worked
perfectly.

-- 

rgds
Stephen

Robert - elists pisze:
> Usually I am one of the first ones to do it
>
> I have resisted this time...
>
> It is almost the Holidays and out centos 4 boxes have been online for like
2
> years or whatever
>
> Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing
> Centos$ servers and done a
>
> yum update
>
> or a
>
> yum -y update
>
> without any problems at all?
>
> :-)
>
>  - rh
>   
My centos 4.5 box x86_64 went yesterday into 4.6 but it has software 
RAID1 (2 IDE HDD - /dev/hda and /dev/hdc), after restart to new kernel 
to have an effect - system didn't boot up ...

After some hours later, i went to the server i saw on the monitor screen 
only this: GRUB (egh - remote administration)

So i staretd system form second RAID1 disk (/dev/hdc - some tweaks in 
BIOS) and system boots up as normal, then i installed again GRUB on 
these first HDD (/dev/hda) - fixed MBR and system boot up on first hdd 
as normal.

So far - i have these strange problems, but by now everything seems to 
be OK. I don't know, what causes this - some nasty BUG in kernel 
installation (another i386 machines with software RAID1 went OK)

Irens
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Robert - elists napsal(a):
> Usually I am one of the first ones to do it
> 
> I have resisted this time...
> 
> It is almost the Holidays and out centos 4 boxes have been online for like
2
> years or whatever
> 
> Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing
> Centos$ servers and done a
> 
> yum update
> 
> or a
> 
> yum -y update
> 
> without any problems at all?
> 
> :-)
> 
>  - rh

Up to 15 production servers within 24 hours, no issues so far. Other
will follow shortly.
DH