The following topics are covered in this document:
Changes to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program (Anaconda)
General information
Kernel-related information
Changes to drivers and hardware support
Changes to packages
The following section includes information specific to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program, Anaconda.
In order to upgrade an already-installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 system to Update 5, you must use Red Hat Network to update those packages that have changed. The use of Anaconda to upgrade to Update 5 is not supported.
Use Anaconda only to perform a fresh install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5.
If you are copying the contents of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 CD-ROMs (in preparation for a network-based installation, for example) be sure you copy the CD-ROMs for the operating system only. Do not copy the Extras CD-ROM, or any of the layered product CD-ROMs, as this will overwrite files necessary for Anaconda's proper operation.
These CD-ROMs must be installed after Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been installed.
This section contains general information not specific to any other section of this document.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 now includes the diskdump facility, which can serve as an alternative to (or be used in conjunction with) the Netdump facility.
The diskdump facility for i386 systems currently support the aic7xxx, aic79xx, mpt fusion, dpt_i2o, megaraid2, sym53c8xx, sata_promise and ata_piix devices. On ia64 systems, the aic7xxx, aic79xx, mpt fusion, megaraid2, sym53c8xx, and sata_promise devices are supported. On AMD64 and Intel® EM64T systems, the aic7xxx, aic79xx, mpt fusion, megaraid2, sym53c8xx, sata_promise, and ata_piix devices are supported.
The sym53c8xx and sata_promise and ata_piix modules are newly supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5.
Usage of the diskdump facility requires a dedicated disk device or disk partitions that are large enough to contain all physical system memory. In the event of a system crash, memory will be written to the configured disk location. Upon subsequent reboot, the data will be copied from the disk and formatted into a vmcore file, identical in functionality to that created by the netdump facility, and stored in the unique subdirectory /var/crash/. The vmcore file may be analyzed using the crash(8) utility.
The kernel modules required for the diskdump facility are automatically included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 kernel. The associated user-space diskdump package is named diskdumputils-1.0.1-4, and like netdump, is installed by default.
The available and appropriate disk location must first be configured and then preformatted for use. After formatting, the diskdump facility may be turned on with chkconfig(8), and then the service must be started. Detailed documentation concerning configuration and user tasks is included with the diskdumputils at the following:
/usr/share/doc/diskdumputils-1.0.1-4/README
Further information can be found in the diskdumpfmt(8), diskdumpctl(8), and savecore(8) man pages.
This section contains information related to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 kernel.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 now extends Netdump platform support from i386 to include AMD64, Intel® EM64T, Itanium, and IBM® POWER architectures.
Documentation concerning configuration of a netdump client can be found in the following document:
/usr/share/doc/netdump-0.7.7/README.client
Documentation concerning configuration of a netdump server can be found in the following document:
/usr/share/doc/netdump-server-0.7.7/README
The vmcore file may be analyzed using the crash(8) utility.
For more information on using Netdump, refer to the netdump(8) and netdump-server(8) man pages.
This update includes bug fixes for a number of drivers. The more significant driver updates are listed below. In some cases, the original driver has been preserved under a different name, and is available as a non-default alternative for organizations that wish to migrate their driver configuration to the latest versions at a later time.
The migration to the latest drivers should be completed before the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux update is applied, because in most cases only one older-revision driver will be preserved for each update.
These release notes also indicate which older-revision drivers have been removed from this kernel update. These drivers have the base driver name with the revision digits appended; for example, megaraid_2002.o. You must remove these drivers from /etc/modules.conf before installing this kernel update.
Keep in mind that the only definitive way to determine what drivers are being used is to review the contents of /etc/modules.conf. Use of the lsmod command is not a substitute for examining this file.
Intel® Pro/100 Adapter family (e100 driver)
This driver is updated to version 3.3.6-k2.
As part of the update of the e100 driver, the module options for e100 are no longer used. The e100 module options continue to exist in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5 for compatibility with previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 releases, but they no longer have any effect on the behavior of the new e100 driver. Customers who wish to configure the behavior of the e100 driver should use the ETHTOOL_OPTS setting available in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files.
Intel® PRO/1000 Adapters (e1000 driver)
This driver has been updated to version 5.6.10.1-k2.
Broadcom Tigon3 (tg3 driver)
This driver has been updated to version 3.22RH.
Broadcom 4400 (b44 driver)
This driver has been updated to version 0.95.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller (3w-9xxx driver)
This driver has been updated to version 2.24.00.011fw.
3ware Storage Controller (3w-xxxx driver)
This driver has been updated to version 1.02.00.037. The 1.02.00.033 driver is preserved.
QLogic Fibre Channel (qla2xxx driver)
A module parameter has been added to the qla2200 driver to allow the Reduced Interrupt Operation (RIO) to be turned off. RIO is a firmware feature that attempts to increase efficiency by delaying interrupts. RIO provides benefit when there is a heavy load with several commands outstanding. However, it can reduce performance in other workloads (it has been especially evident with tape I/O).
Note that the module parameter does not apply to the qla2100 or qla2300 drivers.
Compaq SA53xx Controllers (cciss driver)
This driver has been updated to version v2.4.54.RH1.
IBM ServeRAID (ips driver)
The vary_io feature that was enabled for this driver in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 was found to cause adapter hangs in some situations. This feature has been disabled again in the ips driver. Some applications (primarily those that use raw I/O) may experience reduced performance.
This section contains listings of packages that have been updated or added from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 as part of Update 5.
These package lists include packages from all variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Your system may not include every one of the packages listed here.
The following packages have been updated from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 4:
ImageMagick
ImageMagick-c++
ImageMagick-c++-devel
ImageMagick-devel
ImageMagick-perl
MyODBC
XFree86
XFree86-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts
XFree86-Mesa-libGL
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU
XFree86-Xnest
XFree86-Xvfb
XFree86-base-fonts
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts
XFree86-devel
XFree86-doc
XFree86-font-utils
XFree86-libs
XFree86-libs-data
XFree86-sdk
XFree86-syriac-fonts
XFree86-tools
XFree86-truetype-fonts
XFree86-twm
XFree86-xauth
XFree86-xdm
XFree86-xfs
am-utils
anaconda
anaconda-runtime
authconfig
authconfig-gtk
autofs
bash
bind
bind-chroot
bind-devel
bind-libs
bind-utils
binutils
bonobo-activation
bonobo-activation-devel
bootparamd
bzip2
bzip2-devel
bzip2-libs
cdrecord
cdrecord-devel
chkconfig
comps
control-center
cpio
cpp
crash
cups
cups-devel
cups-libs
curl
curl-devel
db4
db4-devel
db4-java
db4-utils
devlabel
diskdumputils
dump
dvd+rw-tools
emacs
emacs-el
emacs-leim
enscript
ethereal
ethereal-gnome
evolution
evolution-devel
gaim
gcc
gcc-c++
gcc-g77
gcc-gnat
gcc-java
gcc-objc
gd
gd-devel
gdb
gdk-pixbuf
gdk-pixbuf-devel
gdk-pixbuf-gnome
gdm
gedit
glibc
glibc-common
glibc-devel
glibc-headers
glibc-profile
glibc-utils
gnome-applets
gnome-media
gnome-panel
gnome-vfs2
gnome-vfs2-devel
grep
gtk2
gtk2-devel
hotplug
httpd
httpd-devel
hwdata
imap
imap-devel
imap-utils
imlib
imlib-devel
initscripts
ipsec-tools
iscsi-initiator-utils
jpackage-utils
kdebase
kdebase-devel
kdelibs
kdelibs-devel
kdenetwork
kdenetwork-devel
kernel
kernel-BOOT
kernel-doc
kernel-hugemem
kernel-hugemem-unsupported
kernel-smp
kernel-smp-unsupported
kernel-source
kernel-unsupported
kernel-utils
krb5-devel
krb5-libs
krb5-server
krb5-workstation
kudzu
kudzu-devel
laus
laus-devel
laus-libs
less
libf2c
libgcc
libgcj
libgcj-devel
libgnat
libobjc
libstdc++
libstdc++-devel
libtiff
libtiff-devel
libwnck
libwnck-devel
libxml
libxml-devel
linuxwacom
losetup
lsof
ltrace
lvm
mailman
mailx
man-pages-ja
metacity
mikmod
mkinitrd
mkisofs
mktemp
mod_auth_mysql
mod_python
mod_ssl
mount
mozilla
mozilla-chat
mozilla-devel
mozilla-dom-inspector
mozilla-js-debugger
mozilla-mail
mozilla-nspr
mozilla-nspr-devel
mozilla-nss
mozilla-nss-devel
mysql
mysql-bench
mysql-devel
nautilus
ncurses
ncurses-devel
net-snmp
net-snmp-devel
net-snmp-libs
net-snmp-perl
net-snmp-utils
net-tools
netdump
netdump-server
nptl-devel
nscd
nss_ldap
ntsysv
openmotif
openmotif-devel
openmotif21
openoffice.org
openoffice.org-i18n
openoffice.org-libs
openssh
openssh-askpass
openssh-askpass-gnome
openssh-clients
openssh-server
pam
pam-devel
pam_krb5
parted
parted
perl
perl-CGI
perl-CPAN
perl-DBI
perl-DB_File
perl-suidperl
php
php-devel
php-imap
php-ldap
php-mysql
php-odbc
php-pgsql
popt
procps
psacct
psmisc
pstack
python
python-devel
python-tools
quota
raidtools
redhat-config-httpd
redhat-config-users
rh-postgresql
rh-postgresql-contrib
rh-postgresql-devel
rh-postgresql-docs
rh-postgresql-jdbc
rh-postgresql-libs
rh-postgresql-pl
rh-postgresql-python
rh-postgresql-server
rh-postgresql-tcl
rh-postgresql-test
rmt
rpm
rpm-build
rpm-devel
rpm-libs
rpm-python
rpmdb-redhat
rsh
rsh-server
samba
samba-client
samba-common
samba-swat
shadow-utils
squid
squirrelmail
strace
sysklogd
sysreport
telnet
telnet-server
tetex
tetex-afm
tetex-dvips
tetex-fonts
tetex-latex
tetex-xdvi
tkinter
tzdata
usermode
usermode-gtk
util-linux
vim-X11
vim-common
vim-enhanced
vim-minimal
vixie-cron
wget
xemacs
xemacs-el
xemacs-info
xpdf
ypbind
ypserv
zip
zsh
The following packages have been added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5:
No packages have been added.
The following packages have been removed from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 5:
No packages have been removed.
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