CentOS 5.4 is on the road.

I did yum update on one of my nodes and it's now at 5.4. I rebooted, too. Looks good so far.

@BarkerJr:

I did yum update on one of my nodes and it's now at 5.4. I rebooted, too. Looks good so far.

what kind of services are you running on your linode?

it's all ok? no conflicts? no problem?

Why don't you clone your Linode to a new one, update the clone, and see how it works?

dub tee eff. Webmin really messed up my yum repositories on one of my nodes. My other CentOS linode upgraded to 5.4 easily.

edit: nevermind. upgrading using yum screwed everything up. fantastic

edit 2: somehow the network configurations got screwed up. all is well now :D

@spearson:

edit 2: somehow the network configurations got screwed up. all is well now :D

what's happening? what's the problem?

@sblantipodi:

@spearson:

edit 2: somehow the network configurations got screwed up. all is well now :D

what's happening? what's the problem?

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 was replaced with the wrong config during the upgrade. That seems to be the only problem I had.

yum clean all; yum update;

this is the final output when it finished to download package:

Total 2.0 MB/s | 176 MB 01:29

Running rpmcheckdebug

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Check Error:

package gnutls-1.4.1-3.el53.5.x8664 (which is newer than gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386) is already installed

Error Summary

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Please help.

@sblantipodi:

yum clean all; yum update;

this is the final output when it finished to download package:

Total 2.0 MB/s | 176 MB 01:29

Running rpmcheckdebug

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Check Error:

package gnutls-1.4.1-3.el53.5.x8664 (which is newer than gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_2.1.i386) is already installed

Error Summary

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Please help.

Not sure what to tell you to be honest.

I did:

yum upgrade – it installed some stuff (I forget)

and then (again):

yum upgrade -- it upgraded/installed a bunch of stuff including CentOS 5.4

Rebooting caused me to have my network config problems that I fixed… Working well so far. Just throwing my experience out there

how do you fixed the network problem?

what kind of problem you got?

@sblantipodi:

how do you fixed the network problem?

what kind of problem you got?

see 4 posts up.

I just upgraded my three nodes no problem. Just did 'yum update' and rebooted. Everything looks good!

Why reboot? After updating to 5.4 we're still using the same Linode-provided kernel. Of course a reboot is a good idea to test that everything comes up OK, but strictly speaking it isn't necessary, is it? Someone correct me if I'm wrong :)

You're probably right. I mean the only reason you should ever need to reboot Linux is when Linode updates your kernel, right? Otherwise you should be able to just restart (after recompiling if applicable) your services using the libraries you updated.

Being new to Linode - how do we get notified if a kernel is upgraded for us?

The blog. And it's not updated till you reboot.

I upgraded to 5.4, and got iowait hell, although I also moved to a larger linode. Worst two days ever, still not sure what is happening. I am just going to make a new linode and start from scratch I think.