Bug 432796
| Summary: | Package xorg-x11-server-Xorg conflicts with kernel < 2.6.18-60.el5. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Alexander Todorov <atodorov> |
| Component: | xorg-x11-server | Assignee: | Adam Jackson <ajax> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | jlaska, xgl-maint |
| Target Milestone: | beta | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0446 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-05-21 16:56:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Alexander Todorov
2008-02-14 13:19:49 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. The Conflicts: is intentional:
### RHEL-specific notes
# ia64: mmap-{expansion,failure} patches require kernel support (#233981)
%ifarch ia64
Conflicts: kernel < 2.6.18-60.el5
%endif
So presumably however you're upgrading isn't removing all the old kernels.
Alternatively we could just take that conflict out and dump a noisy message in
the X log when we try to run against a too-old kernel.
Either way, devel ack.
Eeew. This customer case here is they install U1 (or GOLD) and yum upgrade to the latest content on RHN. This issue seems to suggest that the procedure for RHEL-5/U2/ia64 should change to: 1) yum update kernel 2) reboot into new kernel 3) yum remove old kernel 4) yum update I think that's too much of a departure from the expectation. Ajax, would it be sufficient to have xorg-x11-server-Xorg Require: kernel >= 2.6.18-60.el5 (In reply to comment #7) > Ajax, would it be sufficient to have xorg-x11-server-Xorg > > Require: kernel >= 2.6.18-60.el5 This has the problem that if they boot with an older kernel, then 233981 is back, so we will also have to make the X server change ajax suggested in comment #4: > Alternatively we could just take that conflict out and dump a noisy message in > the X log when we try to run against a too-old kernel. I will ask ajax to do that when he gets in tomorrow morning. I'll make the X server produce the following warning. "WARNING: You are running an kernel older than 2.6.18-60.el5. This is incompatible with the X server you are running. Please boot a kernel later than 2.6.18-60-el5 to avoid bug 233981, where the X server causes an MCA on certain IA64 hardware." The X server won't crash it will just print this out to the log. I'll also remove the requires. Does it make sense to release note the above warning? It looks looks like the package is built in xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.38.el5. Moving to modified. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0446.html |