Latest FC kernel still have SMP bugs?

Nigel Wade nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
Mon Apr 5 12:37:08 UTC 2004


Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:31:06AM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
> 
>>I guess I'm back to square one. The system won't operate in SMP with the FC 
>>kernel and won't operate at all without a FC kernel. So it looks like 
>>Fedora is snafu'd.
>>
>>Unfortunately, RH9/RHEL3 don't have the version of LDAP I require, and when 
>>I tried an upgrade to openldap I started getting FUTEX locking problems.
> 
> 
> Install the RHEL3 kernel on FC1. I installed:
> 
> kernel-smp-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL
> kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL
> 
> from mirror.physics.ncsu.edu:/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/i686
> 

Thanks, that's an interesting suggestion. I really don't want to install 
RPMS from an unknown source, but I'll have a go at building my own.

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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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