The following topics are covered in this document:
Changes to the CentOS installation program (Anaconda)
General information
Changes to drivers and hardware support
Changes to packages
The following section includes information specific to the CentOS installation program, Anaconda.
In order to upgrade an already-installed CentOS 3 system to Update 1, you must use yum to update those packages that have changed. The use of Anaconda to upgrade to Update 1 is not supported.
Use Anaconda only to perform a fresh install of CentOS 3 Update 1.
If you are copying the contents of the CentOS 3 Update 1 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 CentOS has been installed.
CentOS 3 Update 1 includes a new subdirectory of the RedHat directory present on CD-ROM #1. This subdirectory, named Updates, contains all packages that have been added or updated during a quarterly update. Anaconda has also been modified to search the Updates subdirectory during installations and upgrades.
This section contains general information not specific to any other section of this document.
The SCSI standard requires that all SCSI devices respond to Logical Unit Number (LUN) zero. Some SCSI devices fail when they are scanned for Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) greater than zero. Other devices require that LUNs must be numbered sequentially.
The CentOS 3 Update 1 kernel contains a list of devices that have been tested and shown to work correctly when scanned for non-zero LUNs, and non-sequential LUNs. Only devices on this list are scanned by default. This default behavior can be overridden on a system-wide basis by adding the following entry to the /etc/modules.conf file:
options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=255
After modifying modules.conf, it is necessary to rebuild the initial ramdisk file using the mkinitrd script. Refer to mkinitrd man page (using the command man mkinitrd) for more information about creating the initial ramdisk image.
When this option is used, the LUN numbers on the device must be assigned sequentially, starting with zero.
CentOS 3 Update 1 includes support for Serial ATA (SATA) devices via the Intel ICH5 Serial ATA controller. This controller is found in many systems, including most of the latest Dell, HP, and IBM workstations. In order to ensure proper detection and operation of all storage devices, the system BIOS should be configured for "Enhanced mode" or "SATA-only mode." The "Legacy mode" and/or "Combined mode" settings should not be used.
Notes on Application Compatibility in CentOS 3 Update 1
The POSIX standard defines interfaces to lock files or parts of files to ensure that they are not concurrently changed by other programs. The fcntl() interface with the F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW interfaces can be used for this purpose. The standard defines that attempts to lock an already locked file from another process must fail. Also part of POSIX is the lockf() interface, which serves the same purpose. Not in POSIX, but falling into the same category, is the flock() interface.
The original kernel in the initial CentOS 3 release not only prevents locking of the file from other processes, it also prevents locking from other threads in the same process. This is not correct and does not correspond to the behavior in the 2.6 Linux kernel and correct POSIX semantics. The kernel update in CentOS 3 Update 1 introduces the correct behavior for programs using NPTL. There is no impact to programs that use LinuxThreads nor to programs that are not multi-threaded.
A side effect of the original CentOS 3 kernel is that the l_pid field, which is part of the flock structure which is returned by a call to fcntl() with the F_GETLK command, contains a kernel-internal number of the thread. With the CentOS 3 Update 1 kernel, this field contains the process ID for all threads of the process.
If a non-POSIX-compliant multi-threaded application uses the NPTL library (which is the default), and that application performs file locking with the fcntl() system call, it is possible that the application might not work as originally intended when the CentOS 3 Update 1 kernel is used. CentOS recommends that any such application be re-qualified on the updated kernel, and if a problem is encountered, one of the following courses of action should be taken:
1) Set the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable to "2.4.19" for the application process to prevent it from using the NPTL library. Note that if the application doesn't reset the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable, this setting is inherited by all child processes.
2) Modify the application so that it no longer expects behavior that is inconsistent with POSIX compliance. This will improve the program's overall portability.
CentOS believes that few (if any) multi-threaded applications will be negatively impacted by the file locking fixes contained in the updated kernel.
Similar problems exist with the kernel functionality that provides credentials for transport for Unix sockets and the System V message queues, semaphores, and shared memory. In the first case, calls such as:
getsockopt (fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PEERCRED, &caller, &optlen)
return information in the structure caller, which is of type struct ucred. This structure contains a field pid. In the original CentOS 3 kernel, this field was filled with a kernel-internal value representing the thread that sent the data. With CentOS 3 Update 1, the field correctly contains the process ID -- in other words, the same value for all threads in a process.
The struct msqid_s type, defined in <sys/msq.h>, which is used to get information about a System V message queue, contains the fields msg_lspid and msg_lrpid. Both fields previously contained a kernel-internal value, whereas now they correctly contain the PID of the process calling msgsnd() and msgrcv() respectively.
When the GETPID command, defined in <sys/sem.h>, is used with the semctl() function, the original CentOS 3 kernel returned a kernel-internal value. As of CentOS 3 Update 1, the returned value is the process ID.
The struct shmid_s type, defined in <sys/shm.h>, which is used to get information about a System V shared memory segment, contains the fields shm_lpid and shm_cpid. Both fields previously contained kernel-internal values; now they correctly contain the PID of the process performing the last operation, and creating the segment, respectively.
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 CentOS update is applied, because in most cases only one older-revision driver will be preserved for each update.
IBM ServeRAID (ips driver)
The scsi/ips driver has been updated from 6.00.26 to 6.10.52
The older driver has been preserved as addon/ips_60026
LSI Logic RAID (megaraid driver)
The scsi/megaraid driver has been updated from v1.18j to v1.18k
The scsi/megaraid2 driver has been updated from v2.00.5 to v2.00.9
C-Media PCI audio driver (cmpci driver)
The sound/cmpci driver has been updated from Revision 5.64 to 6.36
The older driver has been preserved as addon/cmpci_564
Intel PRO/1000 (e1000 driver)
The e1000 driver has been updated from 5.1.11-k1 to 5.2.20-k1
Intel PRO/100 (e100 driver)
The e100 driver has been updated from 2.3.13-k1-1 to 2.3.30-k1
This section contains listings of packages that have been updated or added from CentOS 3 as part of Update 1.
These package lists include packages from all variants of CentOS 3. Your system may not include every one of the packages listed here.
The following packages have been updated from the original release of CentOS 3:
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
anaconda
anaconda-runtime
ant
ant-devel
ant-libs
clumanager
compat-gcc
compat-gcc-c++
compat-gcc-g77
compat-gcc-java
compat-gcc-objc
compat-libgcj
compat-libgcj-devel
compat-libstdc++
compat-libstdc++-devel
cpp
devlabel
eclipse
ethereal
ethereal-gnome
freeradius
freeradius-mysql
freeradius-postgresql
freeradius-unixODBC
gcc
gcc-c++
gcc-g77
gcc-gnat
gcc-java
gcc-objc
gdb
glibc
glibc-common
glibc-debug
glibc-devel
glibc-headers
glibc-profile
glibc-utils
gnupg
hotplug
httpd
httpd-devel
hwdata
initscripts
iproute
kdegames
kdegames-devel
kernel
kernel-BOOT
kernel-doc
kernel-hugemem
kernel-hugemem-unsupported
kernel-smp
kernel-smp-unsupported
kernel-source
kernel-unsupported
kernel-utils
kinput2-canna-wnn6
kudzu
kudzu-devel
libf2c
libgcc
libgcj
libgcj-devel
libgnat
libobjc
libstdc++
libstdc++-devel
mdadm
mod_jk2
mod_ssl
mod_webapp
modutils
modutils-devel
net-snmp
net-snmp-devel
net-snmp-perl
net-snmp-utils
netdump
netdump-server
nptl-devel
nscd
nss_ldap
openssl
openssl-devel
openssl-perl
oprofile
oprofile-devel
pstack
quagga
quagga-contrib
quagga-devel
redhat-config-cluster
redhat-config-kickstart
redhat-config-network
redhat-config-network-tui
redhat-config-packages
redhat-config-xfree86
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
rsync
shadow-utils
strace
struts
tomcat
tomcat-devel
tomcat-libs
up2date
up2date-gnome
ypbind
The following new packages have been added to CentOS 3 Update 1:
jaf
jaf-devel
javamail
javamail-devel
jonas
jonas-examples
junit
junit-devel
mysql-jdbc
mysql-jdbc-tomcat
rh-cs-es
struts-webapps
tomcat-test
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