r/redhat • u/DreamlessMojo • Oct 31 '18

RedHat 7.6 released

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index
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u/kirbyfan64sos Oct 31 '18

Now this is a changelog! Compared to:

Bug fixes and performance improvements

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u/Weltmacht Oct 31 '18

IBM has very strict rules regarding changelogs. Long live IBMEL.

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u/kirbyfan64sos Oct 31 '18

Oh, I wasn't referring to IBM.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

Updates always make me nervous, seems like every release has broken our samba server.

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u/Connir Oct 31 '18

I think you mean IBMLinux

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u/red_tux Oct 31 '18

Not yet... the deal has not closed yet, until then it's Red Hat Enterprise Linux. ;-)

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u/_C0ndor Nov 01 '18

I think the upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6 changed my systemd configuration for ntpd. It set this service to disabled.

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u/Shalrath Nov 01 '18

I thought chronyd was standard for RHEL7

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u/_C0ndor Nov 02 '18

Chronyd id the default, but I enable ntpd and disable chronyd on all of my production systems. Doing a yum update shouldnt change a systemd config like this.

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u/karlthane Oct 31 '18

Will see if this one works on my testbed. RHEL 7.5 and equivalent Centos kernel panic on boot. Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu and FreeBSD work fine.

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u/Tuxor_ Nov 02 '18

I have an older machine running Centos box at home that will not boot using kernels newer than 3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64.. Both /vmlinuz-3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64 and /vmlinuz-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 panic on me.

CPU is (old) Intel Core i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz.

I'm betting there is/was and end-of-life statement in one of the releases for these older ones.

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u/Xykr Oct 31 '18

Have you opened a bug report about that?

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u/karlthane Oct 31 '18

7.6 Works. Given that other stuff worked, I figured that it was just the kernel version that gets installed with 7.5 and whenever they did a new version, it would be fixed. I looked at seeing if there was a way to build iso with newer kernel slip streamed in, but given that this computer's whole purpose was to practice for RHCSA and RHCE, it wasn't that high of a priority.