Regular RHES 5.2 update broke raid setup...

Heinz Mauelshagen heinzm at redhat.com
Tue Nov 25 12:13:19 UTC 2008


Am Dienstag, den 25.11.2008, 13:10 +0100 schrieb Bas Mevissen:
> Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 15:47 +0100 schrieb Bas Mevissen:
> >> Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> -16 not yet released, my bad.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Can you make it available, please?
> >>> It is being worked on. Please watch for the rhn announcement.
> >>>
> >> OK. Is that a matter of hours, days, weeks?
> > 
> > Days.
> > 
> 
> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0992.html
> 
> Already there!

We are quicker than expected ;-)

> It is called -15 and seems to do well.

Good to hear.

> I'll fix the
> server tonight (CET) and report eventual issues here.

Please do.

> 
> For the errata, I would recommend to add a line that people need to
> recreate their initrd files to include the updated dmraid.static.
> 
> There is also a textual error in the text:
> 
> "An updated *crash* package that fixes a bug is now available."

Oh. Reporting to my colleague.

> 
> >> OK. The man page states that -p is only for -ay. IMHO, -an -p should not 
> >> give any message when the raid set is only activated with -ay -p.
> > 
> > Will think about it future releases.
> > 
> 
> OK. Thanks for the help!

You're welcome!


> 
> P.S. Please note that rc15 still does not work properly for me. So the 
> fixes in rc13-15 need to go into rc15+ someday.

Know issue: -rc15 can't run directly on RHEL5 kernels, just upstream
ones.

Regards,
Heinz

> Bas.
> 
> 




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