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- Page 1 Release Notes for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2...
- Page 2 Also, for up to three years from Novell's distribution of the Novell product, upon request Novell will mail a copy of the source code. Requests should be sent by e-mail to sle_source_request@novell.com or as otherwise instructed at http://www.novell.com/linux/source. Novell...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
1. Purpose ......................... 1 2. New Features ......................... 2 3. Driver Updates ....................... 6 3.1. Network Drivers ....................6 3.2. Storage Drivers ....................6 3.3. Other Drivers ....................... 7 4. Other Updates ........................ 8 5. Installation-Related Notes ....................10 6. Update-Related Notes ....................12 6.1. -
Page 5: Purpose
With the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2, the now obsoleted Service Pack 1 enters limited support status for the following 6 months, during which time Novell will continue to provide security updates and L3 support to maintain its customer's operations safe during the migration window. -
Page 6: New Features
Chapter 2. New Features • 915resolution was added to change the resolution of the 845G, 855GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G and 965GM chipsets • Docking station support for Santa Rosa chipsets were added • Complete iSCSI support was added to autoyast2 •... - Page 7 New Features • The maximum number of raw devices can be specified as boot option (max_raw_minors=XX, where 1 <= XX <= 65536) • Add a new kernel which is designed to run on top of a virtual machine interface layer (VMI). The VMI interface layer is part of the package kernel-vmi which is available as x86 package only (not for x86_64).
- Page 8 New Features attributes. There are two time synchronization ports etr0 and etr1, which can be accessed via sysfs under: /sys/devices/system/etr • zSeries: Dynamic CHPID reconfiguration via SCLP: Allows to react to hardware changes and to configure path for the LPAR from the Linux system. More info: Device Drivers, Features, and Commands - SC33-8289-04, Chapter 2, Configuring a CHPID on LPAR and Chapter 32, chchp and lschp.
- Page 9 New Features • zSeries: Large Page Support: Enables better system performance with large memory footprints like in Java or database workloads by exploiting the new z10 hardware feature to be able to use large memory pages (1 MB). See: Linux kernel source tree under Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. More info: Device Drivers, Features, and Commands - SC33-8411-00, Chapters 28.
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Page 10: Driver Updates
Chapter 3. Driver Updates 3.1. Network Drivers • Added ipw3945 driver in version 1.2.0 and ipw3945d tools in version 1.7.22 • Added iwlwifi driver • Added mac80211 wireless driver • Updated Realtek r8169 driver to support newer chipsets • Updated IPv6 stack for better Source Address Selection •... -
Page 11: Other Drivers
Driver Updates • Updated cciss driver to version 3.6.20 • Updated lpfc driver to version 8.2.0.22 • Updated fusion driver to version 3.04.06 • Enable support for Nvidia MCP73, 77, 79 and 7B SATA devices 3.3. Other Drivers • Updated CIFS to version 1.50c •... -
Page 12: Other Updates
Chapter 4. Other Updates • Updated heartbeat to version 2.1.3 • Updated ocfs2-tools to version 1.4.0 • Updated bin86 tools to version 0.16.17 • Updated dhcp6 to version 1.0.4 • Updated dmapi to version 2.2.8 • Updated heartbeat to version 2.1.3, including a resource agent for iSCSI initiator and hooks to SAP resource agents •... - Page 13 Other Updates • Updated xfsprogs to version 2.9.4 • Updated xntp to version 4.2.4p3 • Updated xsp to version 1.2.5...
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Page 14: Installation-Related Notes
Chapter 5. Installation-Related Notes This section includes installation-related information for this Service Pack. • Installation using Persistent Device names If you plan to add additional storage devices to your system after the OS installation, we strongly recommend to use persistent device names for all storage devices during installation. The installer by default uses the kernel device names. - Page 15 Installation-Related Notes • Disks are signed with a unique MBR signature (found in /sys/firmware/edd/<device>/ mbr_signature) Procedure: • Add parameter use_edd=1 to the kernel parameters during initial installation. • The device-id list in the installer shows the EDD ID (such as edd_dev80_part1) instead of the default device-id name.
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Page 16: Update-Related Notes
POSIX capabilities to the minimum required for normal operation. AppArmor protection can be enabled via the AppArmor control panel, located in YaST under Novell AppArmor. For detailed information about using Novell AppArmor, see the documentation in /usr/share/ doc/packages/apparmor-docs. -
Page 17: Update From Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9
Update-Related Notes The order in which network interfaces will be started has changed. The new order is now bond interfaces first, then vlan, dialup tunnel and finally bridge interfaces. 6.3. Update from SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 • Becoming Superuser Using su By default, calling su to become root does not set the PATH for root. - Page 18 Update-Related Notes • Upgrading MySQL from SLES9 to SLES10 During the upgrade from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server9 to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server10 also MySQL is upgraded from 4.x to 5.x. To complete this migration you have also to upgrade your data as described in the MySQL documentation.
- Page 19 Update-Related Notes Starting with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, vsftpd can be configured independently or over the xinetd. The default is stand-alone. In previous versions, the default was xinetd. To run it over xinetd, make sure that the service is enabled in the xinetd configuration (/etc/ xinetd.d/vsftpd) and set the following line in /etc/vsftpd.conf: listen=NO •...
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Page 20: Technology Previews
Chapter 7. Technology Previews Technology Preview features are not supported or only supported limitedly. These features are mainly included for customer convenience and may not be funtionally complete, instable or in other ways not suitable for production use. • Hot-Add of Memory Hot-Add-memory is currently only supported on the following machines: •... - Page 21 Technology Previews rm /etc/mtab ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab mkdir /var/lib/hwclock mv /etc/adjtime /var/lib/hwclock ln -s /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime /etc/adjtime # the following two steps are only necessary if you use dhcp: mv /etc/resolv.conf /var/lib/misc/ ln -s /var/lib/misc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf # Now mount root filesystem read-only and reboot mount -o remount,ro / reboot...
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Page 22: Deprecated Functionality
YaST does not offer partitioning with JFS. • For the future strategy and development with respect to volume- and storage-management on SUSE Linux Enterprise System, please see: http://www.novell.com/linux/volumemanagement/strategy.html • The ippl package is deprecated and will be removed with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. -
Page 23: Known Issues
Chapter 9. Known Issues • i586 and i686 Machine with more than 16 GB of Memory Depending on the workload, i586 and i686 machines with 16GB-48GB of memory can run into instabilities. Machines with more than 48GB of memory are not supported at all. To run on such a machine, lower the memory with the mem= kernel boot option. - Page 24 Known Issues To avoid this ambiguity, please use the access path by-path. This can be specified during the installation when the mount points are defined. The above restriction does not apply for SLES10 SP2 (which has fix for Problem-ID 34345 and 43704), if you have the z/VM PTF for APAR VM64273, with which z/VM provides a unique identifier that allows to distinguish between virtual disks on the same real device.
- Page 25 Known Issues # ln -s ppc970 power4 # ln -s power5 power5+ # ln -s power6 power6x Go to the 64-bit debuginfo directory: # cd /usr/lib/debug/lib64 # ln -s ppc970 power4 # ln -s power5 power5+ # ln -s power6 power6x # ln -s .
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Page 26: Resolved Issues
Chapter 10. Resolved Issues • Bugfixes This Service Pack contains all the latest bugfixes for each package released via the maintenance Web since the GA version. • Security Fixes This Service Pack contains all the latest security fixes for each package released via the maintenance Web since the GA version. -
Page 27: Technical Informations
• Configuration of kdump The kernel is crashing or otherwise misbehaving and a kernel core dump needs to be captured for analysis. A description on how to setup kdump can be found under the following URL: http://www.novell.com/ support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=3374462&sliceId=SAL_Public • Realtime Applications When running real-time applications on larger systems, lower maximum latencies can be achieved by employing the new disable_buffer_lru kernel command-line option. - Page 28 Because it is not the default, this has not been tested as extensively as the stack protection alone, so Novell only recommends this setup for servers after the administrator has verified that all needed services continue to function properly.
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Page 29: More Information And Feedback
PDF versions of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 startup and preparation guides. • http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/ contains additional or updated documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. • Visit http://www.novell.com/linux/ for the latest Linux product news from SUSE/Novell and http:// www.novell.com/linux/source/ for additional information on the source code of SUSE Linux Enterprise products.