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Bug 749575

Summary: Add a personality to report 2.6.x version number
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Reporter: John Kacur <jkacur>
Component: realtime-kernelAssignee: John Kacur <jkacur>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Sommerseth <davids>
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Version: 2.1CC: bhu, jkodak, jneedle, lgoncalv, ovasik, williams
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Cause: Some broken user space apps (sometimes binary only) depend on a kernel version for 2.6.x. Consequence: Applications that depend on 2.6.x no longer work. Fix: The preferred fix is to fix the applications, however when this is not possible - eg. with binary apps, you can run the program with a "2.6.x personality" Result: Applications run as expected.
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Description John Kacur 2011-10-27 15:22:50 UTC
Make uname report the kernel version as 2.6.40+x where the x is from 3.x
The purpose of this is for broken user space programs, sometimes binary that depend on the kernel name being 2.6.n

Comment 1 John Kacur 2011-10-27 15:24:02 UTC
commit be27425dcc516fd08245b047ea57f83b8f6f0903 upstream

Comment 8 John Kacur 2011-11-02 10:12:42 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
Cause: Some broken user space apps (sometimes binary only) depend on a kernel version for 2.6.x.
Consequence: Applications that depend on 2.6.x no longer work.
Fix: The preferred fix is to fix the applications, however when this is not possible - eg. with binary apps, you can run the program with a "2.6.x personality"
Result: Applications run as expected.

Comment 10 David Sommerseth 2011-11-07 10:32:48 UTC
Ran the following check:

[root@hp-nehalem-01 ~]# uname -r
3.0.8-rt20.38.el6rt.x86_64
[root@hp-nehalem-01 ~]# uname26 uname -r
2.6.40-rt20.38.el6rt.x86_64
[root@hp-nehalem-01 ~]#

-> VERIFIED

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2012-01-23 18:39:36 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0044.html