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January 2014
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Update 5. This document may be updated after it is released. To
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workarounds you may encounter while using Oracle Linux. Oracle
recommends that you read this document before installing or
upgrading Oracle Linux.
Document generated on: 2014-01-02 (revision: 1549)
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Preface
The Oracle Linux Release Notes provides a summary of the new
features, changes, and fixed and known issues in Oracle Linux
Release 6 Update 5.
Audience
This document is written for system administrators who want to
install or update Oracle Linux. It is assumed that readers have a
general understanding of the Linux operating system.
Document Organization
The document is organized as follows:
* Chapter 1, "New Features and Changes" contains a summary of
the new features and changes in this release.
* Chapter 2, "Fixed and Known Issues" contains details of the
fixed and known issues with the software.
* Chapter 3, "Upgrading to Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 " contains
information about how to install updates on your system.
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Chapter 1. New Features and Changes
This chapter describes the new features that are introduced by
Oracle Linux 6 Update 5.
1.1. Supported Kernels
Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 ships with three sets of kernel packages:
* Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2
(kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.211.1.el6uek) for i386
* Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3
(kernel-uek-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek) for x86-64
* Red Hat Compatible Kernel (kernel-2.6.32-431.el6) for i386 and
x86-64
By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat
Compatible Kernel for the specific architecture (i386 or x86-64)
are installed and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise
Kernel.
The ISO image for Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 for i386 includes the
Red Hat Compatible Kernel and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 2 but not the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3,
which does not support i386.
The ISO image for Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 for x86-64 includes the
Red Hat Compatible Kernel and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 3 but not the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2.
To make your system boot the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default:
1. Edit /etc/grub.conf and change the value of the default
parameter to indicate the Red Hat Compatible Kernel. (Each
entry for a bootable kernel in the file starts with a title
definition. The entries are effectively numbered from 0
upwards, where 0 corresponds to the first entry in the file, 1
to the second entry, and so on. To view the GRUB manual, use
the info grub command.)
2. Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and change the setting for the
default kernel package type from DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-uek to
DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel.
1.2. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 (UEK R2) is based on
the upstream kernel 3.0.36 stable source tree.
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel supports a wide range of
hardware and devices. In close cooperation with hardware and
storage vendors, a number of device drivers have been updated by
Oracle in the 2.6.39-400 kernel. For details, see the following
release notes:
* Oracle Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 Quarterly
Update 5 Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E48381/html/index.html)
* Oracle Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 Quarterly
Update 4 Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E41136/html/index.html)
* Oracle Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 Quarterly
Update 3 Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E39869/html/index.html)
1.3. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 (UEK R3) is based on
the upstream kernel 3.8.13 stable source tree. For more
information about UEK R3, see the Oracle Linux Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 3 Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E48380/html/index.html).
A very large number of changes have taken place in mainline Linux
between 3.0.x, on which UEK R2 is based, and 3.8.13, on which UEK
R3 is based. For details of all these changes, see the kernel
change logs that the Linux Kernel Newbies maintain at
http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxVersions.
1.3.1. Notable New Features of UEK R3
UEK R3 includes the following major improvements over UEK R2:
* Integrated DTrace support in the UEK R3 kernel and user-space
tracing of DTrace-enabled applications.
* Device mapper support for an external, read-only device as the
origin for a thinly-provisioned volume.
* The loop driver provides the same I/O functionality as dm-nfs
by extending the AIO interface to perform direct I/O. To
create the loopback device, use the losetup command instead of
dmsetup. The dm-nfs module is not provided with UEK R3.
* Btrfs send and receive subcommands allow you to record the
differences between two subvolumes, which can either be
snapshots of the same subvolume or parent and child
subvolumes.
* Btrfs quota groups (qgroups) allow you to set different size
limits for a volume and its subvolumes.
* Btrfs supports replacing devices without unmounting or
otherwise disrupting access to the file system.
* Ext4 quotas are enabled as soon as the file system is mounted.
* TCP controlled delay management (CoDel) is a new active queue
management algorithm that is designed to handle excessive
buffering across a network connection (bufferbloat). The
algorithm is based on for how long packets are buffered in the
queue rather than the size of the queue. If the minimum
queuing time rises above a threshold value, the algorithm
discards packets and reduces the transmission rate of TCP.
* TCP connection repair implements process checkpointing and
restart, which allows a TCP connection to be stopped on one
host and restarted on another host. Container virtualization
can use this feature to move a network connection between
hosts.
* TCP and STCP early retransmit allows fast retransmission
(under certain conditions) to reduce the number of duplicate
acknowledgements.
* TCP fast open (TFO) can speed up the opening of successive TCP
connections between two endpoints by eliminating one round
time trip (RTT) from some TCP transactions.
* The TCP small queue algorithm is another mechanism intended to
help deal with bufferbloat. The algorithm limits the amount of
data that can be queued for transmission by a socket.
* The secure computing mode feature (seccomp) is a simple
sandbox mechanism that, in strict mode, allows a thread to
transition to a state where it cannot make any system calls
except from a very restricted set (_exit(), read(),
sigreturn(), and write()) and it can only use file descriptors
that were already open. In filter mode, a thread can specify
an arbitrary filter of permitted systems calls that would be
forbidden in strict mode. Access to this feature is by using
the prctl() system call. For more information, see the
prctl(2) manual page.
* The OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 2.0 stack
supports the following protocols:
+ SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) enables access to remote SCSI
devices via remote direct memory access (RDMA)
+ iSCSI Extensions for remote direct memory access (iSER)
provide access to iSCSI storage devices
+ Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) is a high-performance,
low-latency, reliable connectionless protocol for
datagram delivery
+ Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) supports stream sockets for
RDMA network fabrics
+ Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB)
+ IP encapsulation over InfiniBand (IPoIB)
+ Ethernet tunneling over InfiniBand (eIPoIB)
The OFED 2.0 stack also supports the following RDS features:
+ Async Send (AS)
+ Quality of Service (QoS)
+ Automatic Path Migration (APM)
+ Active Bonding (AB)
+ Shared Request Queue (SRQ)
+ Netfilter (NF)
* Paravirtualization support has been enabled for Oracle Linux
guests on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008
R2 Hyper-V.
* The Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) tunneling protocol overlays
a virtual network on an existing Layer 3 infrastructure to
allow the transfer of Layer 2 Ethernet packets over UDP. This
feature is intended for use by a virtual network
infrastructure in a virtualized environment. Use cases include
virtual machine migration and software-defined networking
(SDN).
Note
The kernel version in UEK R3 is based on the mainline Linux kernel
version 3.8.13. Low-level system utilities that expect the kernel
version to start with 2.6 can run without change if they use the
UNAME26 personality (for example, by using the uname26 wrapper
utility, which is available in the uname26 package).
For more information about the new functionality that UEK R3
provides, see the Oracle Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 3 Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E48380/html/index.html).
1.4. FUSE Mount Option
The FUSE module in both UEK R2 and UEK R3 has been enhanced to
improve scalability of application throughput on NUMA systems as
the number of threads or processes that are accessing FUSE-based
file systems increases. To select the new code paths, specify the
numa mount option when mounting FUSE-based file systems on NUMA
systems. This feature is available in UEK R2 from 2.6.39-400.107.0
onwards and in all versions of UEK R3.
1.5. Notable New Security Features
The following notable security features are included in this
update:
* Applications such as Java and OpenSSL are now able to share a
cryptographic data store that crypto toolkits can use for
processing trusted certificates.
* Smartcard authentication support in a larger number of
application subsystems for single sign on (SSO).
* Updated version of OpenSCAP to comply with the certification
requirements of NIST SCAP 1.2.
* Updated Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.2) support.
1.6. Technology Preview Features
Technology Preview features are still under development but are
made available for testing and evaluation purposes and to give the
features wider exposure. These features are not supported under
Oracle Linux support subscriptions and are not suitable for
production use.
The following Technology Preview features are currently not
supported under Oracle Linux 6 and might not be functionally
complete:
* DIF/DIX support for SCSI
* FS-Cache
* fsfreeze
* IPv6 support in IPVS
* LVM API
* LVM RAID support
* Matahari
* Open multicast ping (omping)
* System Information Gatherer and Reporter (SIGAR)
* Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
* Trusted Boot
* vios-proxy
1.6.1. Technology Preview Features in UEK R2
The following technology preview features are provided with UEK
R2:
* DTrace (Oracle Linux 6 and x86-64 only)
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework that was
initially developed for the Oracle Solaris operating system
and which is being ported to Linux by Oracle. DTrace provides
a powerful infrastructure to permit administrators,
developers, and service personnel to concisely answer
arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system
and user programs in real time. DTrace feature previews are
published as a separate set of kernel packages in UEK R2.
DTrace support is integrated with the kernel in the UEK R3
distribution, where it is available as a supported feature for
subscribers to ULN.
* Distributed Replicated Block Device (Oracle Linux 6 only)
Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) shared-nothing,
synchronously replicated block device (RAID1 over network),
designed to serve as a building block for high availability
(HA) clusters. It requires a cluster manager (for example,
pacemaker) to implement automatic failover.
* Kernel module signing facility
Applies cryptographic signature checking to modules on module
load, checking the signature against a ring of public keys
compiled into the kernel. GPG is used to do the cryptographic
work and determines the format of the signature and key data.
The kernel module signing facility is a supported feature in
the UEK R3 distribution.
* Linux Containers (Oracle Linux 6 and x86-64 only)
Based on the Linux cgroups and name spaces functionality,
Linux Containers (LXC) allow you to safely and securely run
multiple applications or instances of an operating system on a
single host without risking them interfering with each other.
Containers are lightweight and resource-friendly, which saves
both rack space and power. In order to get started with
containers, you need to install the lxc package, which is
included in the package repository of the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel.
LXC is a supported feature in the UEK R3 distribution.
* Transcendent memory
Transcendent Memory (tmem) provides a new approach for
improving the utilization of physical memory in a virtualized
environment by claiming underutilized memory in a system and
making it available where it is most needed. From the
perspective of an operating system, tmem is fast pseudo-RAM of
indeterminate and varying size that is useful primarily when
real RAM is in short supply. To learn more about this
technology and its use cases, see the Transcendent Memory
project page on oss.oracle.com:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/
1.6.2. Technology Preview Features in UEK R3
The following technology preview features are provided with UEK
R3:
* Distributed Replicated Block Device
Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) shared-nothing,
synchronously replicated block device (RAID1 over network),
designed to serve as a building block for high availability
(HA) clusters. It requires a cluster manager (for example,
pacemaker) to implement automatic failover.
* Transcendent memory
Transcendent Memory (tmem) provides a new approach for
improving the utilization of physical memory in a virtualized
environment by claiming underutilized memory in a system and
making it available where it is most needed. From the
perspective of an operating system, tmem is fast pseudo-RAM of
indeterminate and varying size that is useful primarily when
real RAM is in short supply. To learn more about this
technology and its use cases, see the Transcendent Memory
project page on oss.oracle.com:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/
1.6.3. Technology Preview Features in RHCK
The following Technology Preview features are available when
running the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK):
* Btrfs file system
* Closed Process Group (CPG) API for inter-node locking
* Corosync redundant ring with autorecovery
* corosync-cpgtool dual-ring configuration
* Cross Realm Kerberos Trust Functionality (relies on samba4
client library)
* fence_ipmilan agent diagnostic pulse
* fence_sanlock agent for luci
* FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace)
* keepalived daemon for network load balancing and high
availability
* Kerberos v1.10 DIR cache storage type to handle TGTs for
multiple KDCs
* Kernel Media support
* libqb library for high performance logging, tracing,
inter-process communication, and polling by Pacemaker
* Linux Containers (LXC)
* LVM metadata dynamic aggregation (using lvmetad daemon)
* LVM support for thinly-provisioned snapshots (single system
only)
* LVM support for thinly-provisioned logical volumes (single
system only)
* Pacemaker high-availability cluster manager
* pcs utility for cluster configuration and management
* Precision Time Protocol (PTP) linuxptp implementation
* PTP kernel driver support
* QFQ queuing discipline
* rgmanager support for disabling via /etc/cluster.conf
* Thin-provisioning and scalable snapshots
* trousers and tpm-tools packages that support Trusted Platform
Module (TPM) hardware
Note
Btrfs and FUSE are supported features in the UEK R2 and UEK R3
distributions.
LXC is a supported feature in the UEK R3 distribution.
Chapter 2. Fixed and Known Issues
This chapter describes the fixed and known issues for Oracle Linux
6 Update 5.
Important
Run the yum update command regularly to ensure that the latest bug
fixes and security errata are installed on your system.
For details of the fixed and known issues with the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 3, see the Oracle Linux Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 3 Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E48380/html/index.html).
For details of the fixed and known issues with the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2 Quarterly Update 5, see the Oracle
Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 Quarterly Update 5
Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E48381/html/index.html).
2.1. Fixed Issues
The following major issues are fixed in this update:
Kernel Panic with Emulex LPe16XXX and Sun Storage FCoE Adapters
A kernel panic could occur at boot time if an Emulex LPe16XXX FCoE
adapter or a Sun Storage version of such an adapter was installed
and the lpfc driver was not updated to version 0:8.3.7.10.4p or
later. The version of the lpfc driver provided in this update
corrects the issue.
X Window System Does Not Run in a PVHVM Guest
If you installed an Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 (x86-64) PVHVM guest
with either the Desktop or the Software Development Workstation
installation options, the X Window System was not accessible after
installation when you booted the guest into run level 5. This
problem was seen in OVM 3.0 and later. The workaround was to boot
the guest into run level 3 and uninstall the xorg-x11-drv-cirrus
package before switching to run level 5.
The issue is fixed in xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.5.2-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
or later versions of this package. (Bug ID 16280196)
2.2. Known Issues
This section describes known issues in this update.
Booting UEK R2 as a 32-bit PVHVM Guest
When booting UEK R2 as a 32-bit PVHVM guest, you can safely ignore
the kernel message register_vcpu_info failed: err=-38, which might
be displayed. (Bug ID 13713774)
Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gbps Network Adapter Driver
When using the bnx2x driver in a bridge, disable Transparent
Packet Aggregation (TPA) by including options bnx2x disable_tpa=1
in /etc/modprobe.conf. (Bug ID 14626070)
Btrfs File System Issues
For a description of the known issues for btrfs with Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 3, see the Oracle Linux Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 3 Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E48380/html/index.html).
For a description of the known issues for btrfs with Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2 Quarterly Update 5, see the Oracle
Linux Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 Quarterly Update 5
Release Notes
(http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E48381/html/index.html).
Console Appears to Hang when Booting
On some hardware, the console may appear to hang during the boot
process after starting udev. However, the system does boot
properly and is accessible. A workaround to this problem is to add
nomodeset as a kernel boot parameter in /etc/grub.conf. (Bug ID
10094052, 13485328)
Default I/O Scheduler
For the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, deadline is the default I/O
scheduler.
For the Red Hat Compatible Kernel, cfq is the default I/O
scheduler.
Default NFS Mount Options
The default NFS mount option has changed to NFS v4. To mount an
NFS v3 volume (the default in Oracle Linux 5), use the following
mount options:
-o vers=3,mountproto=tcp
Default Reverse Path Filtering Mode Affects Certain Oracle Products
Oracle Linux 6 defaults to reverse path filtering in strict mode.
Some Oracle products and network storage devices work more
reliably with reverse path filtering in loose mode. To enable
loose mode, issue the following command (where iface is the
network interface, for example, eth1).
# sysctl net.ipv4.conf.iface.rp_filter=2
The default setting is 1 for strict mode. (Bug ID 10649976)
DTrace Issues
* If you want to use the DTrace-enabled version of the UEK R2
kernel, subscribe your system to the Dtrace for Oracle Linux 6
(x86_64) - Latest channel (ol6_x86_64_Dtrace_latest) but not
to the Oracle Linux 6 Dtrace Userspace Tools (x86_64) - Latest
channel (ol6_x86_64_Dtrace_userspace_latest). The
ol6_x86_64_Dtrace_userspace_latest channel is provided for use
with UEK R3 and installs that kernel as a dependency.
* Using kill -9 to terminate dtrace can leave breakpoints
outstanding in processes being traced, which might sooner or
later kill them.
* Argument declarations for probe definitions cannot be declared
with derived types such as enum, struct, or union.
* The following compiler warning can be ignored for probe
definition arguments of type string (which is a D type but not
a C type):
provider_def.h:line#: warning: parameter names (without types) in fun
ction declaration
* The vtimestamp() function does not return a correct value.
(Bug ID 17741477)
Enabling FIPS Mode
To make an Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 5 system compliant with
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2,
perform the following steps:
1. Install the dracut-fips package:
# yum install dracut-fips
2. Recreate the initramfs file system:
# dracut -f
3. Identify either the device file path (device) under /dev of
your system's boot device or its UUID (uuid) by using ls -l to
examine the entries under /dev/disk/by-uuid.
4. Add either a boot=device entry or a boot=UUID=uuid entry for
the boot device to the kernel command line in /etc/grub.conf.
5. Add a fips=1 entry to the kernel command line in
/etc/grub.conf to specify strict FIPS compliance.
6. Disable prelinking by setting PRELINKING=no in
/etc/sysconfig/prelink.
7. Remove all existing prelinking from binaries and libraries:
# prelink -ua
8. Install the openssh-server-fips and openssh-client-fips
packages and their dependent packages:
# yum install openssh-server-fips openssh-client-fips
9. Shut down and reboot the system.
Note
If you specify fips=1 on the kernel command line but omit a valid
boot= entry, the system crashes because it cannot locate the
kernel's .hmac file.
If you do not disable and remove all prelinking, users cannot log
in and /usr/sbin/sshd does not start.
(Bug ID 17759117, 17776875)
Error message Following First Reboot on an HP ProLiant Server
You might see a message similar to the following during the first
reboot of an HP ProLiant server:
[Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 186 is 4
3003c)
You can safely ignore this message. The functionality and
performance of the operating system and the server are not
affected.
Incorrect Package Count
Selecting all packages in certain groups during installation might
not show the correct package count. (Bug ID 11684244)
iTCO_wdt Errors
If you see the following boot-time dmesg error with the UEK R2:
iTCO_wdt: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, device disabled by hardware
/BIOS
add the line blacklist iTCO_wdt to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.
Journal Corruption in Virtualized Systems
On virtualized systems that are built on Xen version 3, including
all releases of Oracle VM 2 including 2.2.2 and 2.2.3, disk
synchronization requests for ext3 and ext4 file systems result in
journal corruption with kernel messages similar to the following
being logged:
blkfront: barrier: empty write xvda op failed
blkfront: xvda: barrier or flush: disabled
In addition, journal failures such as the following might be
reported:
Aborting journal on device xvda1
The workaround is to add the mount option barrier=0 to all ext3
and ext4 file systems in the guest VM before upgrading to UEK R3.
For example, you would change a mount entry such as:
UUID=4e4287b1-87dc-47a8-b69a-075c7579eaf1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
so that it reads:
UUID=4e4287b1-87dc-47a8-b69a-075c7579eaf1 / ext3 defaults,barrier=
0 1 1
This issue does not apply to Xen 4 based systems, such as Oracle
VM 3. (Bug ID 17310816, 17313428)
Kdump Service Configuration
By default, the Kernel Dump service (Kdump) is enabled but not
configured. The following boot-time message indicates that Kdump
needs to be configured.
kdump: No crashkernel parameter specified for running kernel
To prevent this message from being displayed, use the Kernel Dump
Configuration GUI (system-config-kdump) to configure or disable
Kdump. (Bug ID 16242031)
When configuring a crashkernel setting for the UEK, only standard
settings such as crashkernel=128M@32M are supported. Settings such
as crashkernel=auto, which can be used with the Red Hat Compatible
Kernel, are not supported by the UEK and cause Kdump to fail to
start. (Bug ID 13495212)
Linux Containers 32-bit Support
The Linux Containers package (lxc) is not available for the i386
architecture.
Linux Containers Interoperability with SELinux
The correct operation of containers might require that you
completely disable SELinux on the host system. For example,
SELinux can interfere with container operation under the following
conditions:
* Running the halt or shutdown command from inside the container
hangs the container or results in a permission denied error.
(An alternate workaround is to use the init 0 command from
inside the container to shut it down.)
* Setting a password inside the container results in a
permission denied error, even when run as root.
* You want to allow ssh logins to the container. ssh logins are
possible with SELinux enabled if you install the
lxc-0.9.0-2.0.5 package (or later version of this package).
To disable SELinux on the host:
1. Edit the configuration file for SELinux, /etc/selinux/config
and set the value of the SELINUX directive to disabled.
2. Shut down and reboot the host system.
(Bug ID 15967411)
Linux Containers Default Configuration Location
The default location for a container's configuration has changed
from /etc/lxc/name to /container/name in lxc 0.8.0 onward.
To start a container that you created with a previous update of
Oracle Linux, specify the -f option to lxc-start, for example:
# lxc-start -n ol6u3 -f /etc/lxc/ol6u3/config
To convert an existing container to use the new location:
1. Move the container's configuration directory to
/container/name:
# mv /etc/lxc/name /container
2. Edit the /container/name/config file and change the values of
any lxc.rootfs and lxc.mount parameters to refer to /container
instead of /etc/lxc.
For example, if the config file contained the following
entries:
lxc.rootfs = /etc/lxc/example/rootfs
lxc.mount.entry=/lib /etc/lxc/example/rootfs/lib none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry=/usr/lib /etc/lxc/example/rootfs/usr/lib none ro,bind
0 0
lxc.mount.entry=/lib64 /etc/lxc/example/rootfs/lib64 none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry=/usr/lib64 /etc/lxc/example/rootfs/usr/lib64 none ro,
bind 0 0
you would change these entries to read:
lxc.rootfs = /container/example/rootfs
lxc.mount.entry=/lib /container/example/rootfs/lib none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry=/usr/lib /container/example/rootfs/usr/lib none ro,bi
nd 0 0
lxc.mount.entry=/lib64 /container/example/rootfs/lib64 none ro,bind 0
0
lxc.mount.entry=/usr/lib64 /container/example/rootfs/usr/lib64 none r
o,bind 0 0
After converting the container, you do not need to specify the -f
option to lxc-start. (Bug ID 15967411)
Mellanox ConnectX Drivers
The Mellanox ConnectX core, Ethernet, and InfiniBand drivers are
supported only for the x86-64 architecture. (Bug ID 16228063)
mlx4_core Conflicts Between the mlnx_en and ofa Packages
Both the mlnx_en and ofa packages contain mlx4_core. Only one of
these packages should be installed. Attempting to install both
packages on a single server results in a package conflict error.
If you have a Mellanox Ethernet Controller, install mlnx_en. If
you have a Mellanox InfiniBand Controller, install ofa. If your
system has both controllers, use ofa as it supports both the
Ethernet and InfiniBand controllers.
Oracle Clusterware Fails to Start on ASM Storage with SELinux Enabled
If the SELinux policy packages have not been updated recently,
Cluster Ready Services (CRS) might fail to start with messages
such as the following in /var/log/messages:
SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/oracleasm/oracleasm-instantiate-disk f
rom
associate access on the filesystem DATA1.
The solution is to upgrade the selinux-policy and
selinux-policy-targeted packages to ensure that you are running a
version no earlier than 3.7.195.0.1.el6_4.5:
# yum update 'selinux-policy*'
After upgrading the packages, reboot the system. (Bug ID 13925445)
Oracle RDBMS Server 11gR2 Preinstall Settings Not Visible After
Installation
On an x86-64 system, if you install the pam.i386 package either
manually or via a package dependency, and the
oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall package is also selected,
this overwrites the settings for Oracle Database in
/etc/security/limits.conf. This is most likely to occur during a
Kickstart-automated installation that includes non-standard
packages. To restore the settings, run the
oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall-verify script. (Bug ID
14212822)
Oracle VM 3.0 Guests Crash During Oracle Database Installation
PVHVM guests on Oracle VM 3.0 crash during Oracle Database
installation if the value of the maximum memory (maxmem) parameter
set for the guest is greater than the amount specified at boot
time (memory). To avoid this issue, ensure that the values of the
maxmem and memory parameters are the same. This issue has been
resolved in Oracle VM 3.1.1. (Bug ID 13396734)
Paravirtualized Drivers in a Hardware Virtualized Guest
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel adds support for PV drivers in a
HVM guest (PVHVM) on Oracle VM. The default is to present only PV
drivers when running in an HVM guest. To run kernel-uek fully
hardware virtualized, including the drivers, add the parameter
xen_emul_unplug=never to the boot parameters in /etc/grub.conf,
for example:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-300.2.1.el6uek ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol0
0 xen_emul_unplug=never
Adding this parameter makes the kernel also present the emulated
drivers as previously (for example, the 8139cp network driver).
Post-Installation Anaconda Errors
In certain cases, after successfully completing installation and
rebooting the system, it is possible for errors such as the
following to occur:
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/meh/handler.py", line 161,
in
(lambda)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/exception.py", line 44, in handleException
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/meh/handler.py", line 106,
in
handleException
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1169, in mainExceptionWindow
ImportError: No module named ui.gui
14:05:55 CRITICAL: anaconda 11.5.0.47 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_lazyutils.py"
, line 32,
in __
getattr__
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1453, in keyRelease
if ((event.keyval == gtk.keysyms.KP_Delete
ImportError: No module named keysyms
These errors can safely be ignored.
Receive Packet Steering Errors
Certain network operations that utilize receive packet steering
could cause errors on the system. (Bug ID 11071685)
sched_yield() Settings for the Completely Fair Scheduler
For the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, the default setting is
kernel.sched_compat_yield=1.
For the Red Hat Compatible Kernel, the default setting is
kernel.sched_compat_yield=0.
Setting the Serial Console in a Hardware Virtualized Guest
To set the serial console in a hardware virtualized guest, use
following settings in the guest:
* Add the following parameters to the kernel boot line in
/etc/grub.conf:
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600n8
* Add the following line to /etc/securetty:
ttyS0
Spurious Udev Messages During Failed Path Restoration
If failed paths are restored in a multipath configuration, you
might see udevd-work error messages in /var/log/messages. The
failed paths are restored despite these messages, which you can
ignore. (Bug ID 11682171)
Support for Large Memory 32-bit Systems
Releases of Oracle Linux prior to Oracle Linux 5 supplied a
hugemem kernel to allow a system to address up to 64 GB of memory
in 32-bit mode. The hugemem kernel is no longer available in
Oracle Linux 5 and later releases.
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) supports a maximum of 16
GB of memory for 32-bit kernels on bare metal and hardware
virtualized machine (HVM) systems, and 8 GB for fully
paravirtualized machine (PVM) systems. 32-bit PVM guest operating
systems must be located in the first 128 GB of physical memory on
the host.
The Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) has the same limitations,
except that PVM systems can have up to 16 GB of memory. The
limitation of 8 GB for PVM on UEK was chosen for reasons of
reliability.
A 32-bit system uses the PAE (physical address extension) memory
feature to map physical memory beyond 4 GB into the 32-bit address
space that is available to each process. A 64-bit system can
address memory beyond 4 GB without requiring an extra layer of
memory abstraction.
Oracle Linux on x86-64 includes 32-bit libraries, which allow
applications built for both 64-bit and 32-bit Linux to run on the
same system. This capability provides scalability to virtually
unlimited memory sizes, while retaining the ability to run 32-bit
applications. Oracle recommends this configuration for any system
with more than 4 GB of memory. (Bug ID 16974301)
udevd Message
A message similar to the following might be recorded in dmesg or
/var/log/messages at boot time:
udevd (pid): /proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/pid/oo
m_score_adj instead.
The udevd process uses the deprecated oom_adj kernel interface to
prevent it from being killed if the system runs short of memory.
You can safely ignore the message as the action still succeeds. To
prevent the message from occurring, install the package
udev-147-2.42.el6.arch.rpm or higher. (Bug ID 13655071, 13712009)
Unable to Register Oracle Linux Guest with ULN
Registering an Oracle Linux guest running under Virtual Box with
the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) might fail with a server
communication error. The workaround is to run the following
command as root on the guest:
# echo "uuid=`uuidgen -t`" >> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
You can then run uln_register again. (Bug ID 14696776)
Unable to Register with ULN After First Reboot
Following the first reboot after installing Oracle Linux 6, you
are prompted to register your system with ULN. If you did not
configure your network during the installation, the registration
process to ULN cannot succeed. To register your system, log in as
root, configure the system's network manually, and run
uln_register.
xguest Package Not Installable with SELinux Disabled
If the xguest package fails to install with a PREIN script error,
enable SELinux by setting SELINUX=enforcing in
/etc/selinux/config, reboot the system, and reinstall the xguest
package. (Bug ID 13495388)
Chapter 3. Upgrading to Oracle Linux 6 Update 5
This chapter describes how to upgrade your system to Oracle Linux
6 Update 5.
3.1. Supported Upgrade Paths
On i386 systems, upgrading from Oracle Linux 6 GA, Update 1,
Update 2, Update 3, or Update 4 is supported for the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2 and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel. The
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 is not supported on the
i386 architecture.
On x86-64 systems, upgrading from Oracle Linux 6 GA, Update 1,
Update 2, Update 3, or Update 4 is supported for the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 3, and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel.
Upgrading from a beta release is not supported.
In-place upgrading from a major version of Oracle Linux 5 or
earlier is not supported. Although Anaconda provides an option to
perform an upgrade, fresh installation is strongly recommended.
If you have an Oracle Linux 5.8 system, you can use new features
in the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 without upgrading
to Oracle Linux 6 as Oracle Linux 5.8 includes the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2. You cannot use features from the
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 as this kernel is not
available for Oracle Linux 5.8.
3.2. Obtaining Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 Packages
You can download a full Oracle Linux installation media image from
the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud at
http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux. You can also obtain Oracle
Linux packages from the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and the
Oracle Public Yum server.
3.2.1. About the Unbreakable Linux Network
You have the option of registering a system with ULN when you
install Oracle Linux 6 on a system. To register with ULN after
installation, use the uln_register command.
To obtain Oracle Linux updates from ULN, you must have an Oracle
Linux support subscription. For more information about ULN, see
http://linux.oracle.com.
During ULN registration, your server is automatically registered
with the latest channels for the base repository, the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2, and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 3 (x86-64 only).
If you upgrade an x86-64 system and want to install the
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3, you must manually
subscribe the system to the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release
3 latest channel and unsubscribe the server from the Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2 latest channel before running yum
update.
ULN also provides channels for Oracle-specific software packages
such as Oracle's ASMlib user-space package and the Oracle Instant
Client. To enable access to these packages, log in to ULN and
subscribe your system to the Oracle Software channel.
3.2.2. About Public Yum
Oracle also provides all errata and updates for Oracle Linux via
the Public Yum service, which includes updates to the base
distribution, but does not include Oracle-specific software. You
do not require an Oracle Linux support subscription to use this
service. For more information on how to obtain updates from Public
Yum, see http://public-yum.oracle.com.
By default, all new installations of Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 are
automatically configured to use the public yum update service. If
you subsequently register the system with ULN, the public yum
service is automatically disabled.
The following entries in the /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol6.repo
file enable you to download the latest available packages for
Oracle Linux 6 and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2:
[ol6_latest]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/$bas
earch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[ol6_UEK_latest]
name=Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux $releaseve
r ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEK/latest/
$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
The following entries in the /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol6.repo
file enable you to download the latest available packages for
Oracle Linux 6 and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3:
[ol6_latest]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever Latest ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/$bas
earch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[ol6_UEKR3_latest]
name=Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 for Oracle Linux
$releasever ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEKR3/lates
t/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
Note
The ol6_UEKR3_latest repository is not available for i386 systems.
If you want to install packages from the playground or OFED
repositories, add the following entries and enable them by setting
the value of enabled to 1:
[ol6_playground_latest]
name=Latest mainline stable kernel for Oracle Linux 6 ($basearch) - U
nsupported
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/playground/
latest/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[ol6_ofed_UEK]
name=OFED supporting tool packages for Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
on Oracle Linux 6 ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/ofed_UEK/$b
asearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
Note
On a freshly installed Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 system, the
public-yum-ol6.repo file uses the variables uek and uekr3 to
enable or disable ol6_UEK_latest and ol6_UEKR3_latest. For an i386
system, the value of uek is set to 1 in /etc/yum/vars/uek to
enable ol6_UEK_latest and the value of uekr3 is set to 0 in
/etc/yum/vars/uekr3 to disable ol6_UEKR3_latest. For an x86-64
system, the value of uekr3 is set to 1 in /etc/yum/vars/uekr3 to
enable ol6_UEKR3_latest and the value of uek is set to 0 in
/etc/yum/vars/uek to disable ol6_UEK_latest.
If you subsequently register the system with ULN, the repository
entries in public-yum-ol6.repo are disabled and the values of both
uek and uekr3 are set to 0.
3.2.3. About Oracle Linux Installation Media
Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 contains three distinct repository sources
on the installation media for the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 2, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3, and the
Red Hat Compatible Kernel.
To configure yum to use both an Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 2 and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel repositories from an
ISO image of the installation media, create the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/Media.repo containing entries similar to the
following:
[ol6_base_media]
name=Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 Base Media
baseurl=file:///media/ISOimage/Server
gpgkey=file:///media/ISOimage/RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[ol6_uek_media]
name=Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 UEK Media
baseurl=file:///media/ISOimage/UEK2
gpgkey=file:///media/ISOimage/RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
To configure yum to use both an Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Release 3 and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel repositories from an
ISO image of the installation media, create the file
/etc/yum.repos.d/Media.repo containing entries similar to the
following:
[ol6_base_media]
name=Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 Base Media
baseurl=file:///media/ISOimage/Server
gpgkey=file:///media/ISOimage/RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[ol6_uekr3_media]
name=Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 UEK Media
baseurl=file:///media/ISOimage/UEKR3
gpgkey=file:///media/ISOimage/RPM-GPG-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
Note
The ol6_uekr3_media repository is not available for i386 systems.
Adjust the value of the baseurl and gpgkey parameters to match the
mount point of the ISO image on your system. If you do not require
one of the repositories, set the value of the corresponding
enabled parameter to 0.
3.3. Upgrading the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
Oracle Linux 6 Update 5 ships with the latest Unbreakable
Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for i386 and Unbreakable Enterprise
Kernel Release 3 for x86-64. If you upgrade your system from the
installation media, there are four upgrade scenarios:
* If the UEK Release 2 or Release 3 is not currently installed
on the system, only the latest Red Hat Compatible Kernel is
installed. The UEK R2 or UEK R3 kernel is not installed.
* If UEK R2 is currently installed on an i386 system, the latest
version of the UEK R2 kernel is installed.
* If UEK R2 is currently installed on an x86-64 system, the
latest version of the UEK R2 kernel is installed unless you
enable the UEK R3 repository.
* If UEK R3 is currently installed on an x86-64 system, the
latest version of the UEK R3 kernel is installed.
yum uses whatever repositories you have configured on your system
to upgrade it. You can find the latest UEK R2 packages in the
ol6_i386_UEK_latest and ol6_x86_64_UEK_latest repositories and the
latest UEK R3 packages in the ol6_UEKR3_latest repository.
If you want to install the latest UEK R2 kernel on an i386 or
x86-64 system, subscribe your system to the ol6_i386_UEK_latest or
ol6_x86_64_UEK_latest channel on ULN, or configure the repository
in the /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol6.repo file as shown here:
[ol6_UEK_latest]
name=Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux $releaseve
r ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEK/latest/
$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-ol6
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
If you want to update an x86-64 system to use the latest UEK R3
kernel, subscribe your system to the ol6_x86_64_UEKR3_latest
channel on ULN, or configure the repositories in the
/etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol6.repo file as shown here:
[ol6_UEKR3_latest]
name=Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 for Oracle Linux
$releasever ($basearch)
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEKR3/lates
t/$basearch/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
3.4. Applying the Update
Once you have set up the ULN channels, Public Yum repositories, or
installation media repositories that yum should use, you can
update all installed packages by running the following command:
# yum update
This command upgrades your system to Update 5.
You can use the following command to update a specific package:
# yum update package
For example, to update the Z-shell package (zsh), you would enter:
# yum update zsh
For more information, see the yum(8) manual page.
Appendix A. Packages
The following sections list the packages that have been added to,
modified from, or removed from the upstream release, or which have
been added to the base release by Oracle.
A.1. Packages Added to the Upstream Release
The following packages have been added to the upstream release:
* freerdp
* gcc-libraries
* glusterfs
* mesa-private-llvm
* openhpi32
* p11-kit
* ps_mem
* redhat-support-lib-python
* redhat-support-tool
* snappy
* xorg-x11-glamor
A.2. Packages Modified from the Upstream Release
The following packages have been modified from the upstream
release:
* abrt
* anaconda
* autofs
* basesystem
* bfa-firmware
* bind
* boost
* brltty
* btrfs-progs
* compat-glibc
* coreutils
* cpuspeed
* crash
* createrepo
* dbus
* device-mapper-multipath
* dhcp
* dracut
* e2fsprogs
* efax
* firefox
* firstaidkit
* firstboot
* fuse
* gdm
* git
* glusterfs
* gnome-desktop
* grub
* grubby
* gstreamer
* httpd
* hypervkvpd
* initscripts
* iptables
* irqbalance
* iscsi-initiator-utils
* java-1.6.0-openjdk
* java-1.7.0-openjdk
* kabi-whitelists
* kabi-yum-plugins
* kdeadmin
* kdebase
* kdebase-workspace
* kdelibs
* kde-settings
* kexec-tools
* libitm
* libreoffice
* libreport
* libvirt
* libxml2
* libxslt
* luci
* mkbootdisk
* module-init-tools
* net-snmp
* netxen-firmware
* nmap
* nss
* openmpi
* openoffice.org
* openssl098e
* oprofile
* PackageKit
* pango
* pcs
* pilot-link
* piranha
* plymouth
* policycoreutils
* publican
* python-virtinst
* ql2400-firmware
* ql2500-firmware
* qperf
* qpid-cpp
* qpid-qmf
* rdma
* redhat-bookmarks
* redhat-indexhtml
* redhat-lsb
* redhat-release-server
* redhat-rpm-config
* rhn-client-tools
* rhnlib
* rhnsd
* rpmdevtools
* rsyslog
* sanlock
* selinux-policy
* setroubleshoot
* setroubleshoot-plugins
* sos
* system-config-date
* system-config-date-docs
* system-config-kickstart
* system-config-network
* system-config-services
* system-config-services-docs
* system-config-users-docs
* system-icon-theme
* systemtap
* thunderbird
* tog-pegasus
* udev
* wireshark
* xfsdump (x86-64 only)
* xfsprogs (x86-64 only)
* xkeyboard-config
* xsane
* xulrunner
* yum
* yum-rhn-plugin
* yum-utils
Unless otherwise noted, changes relate to branding, trademark
usage, or user-interface modifications.
A.3. Packages Removed from the Upstream Release
The following packages from the upstream release are not included:
* iprutils
* libehca
* libica
* libreport-plugin-rhtsupport
* librtas
* libservicelog
* libvpd
* lsvpd
* openssl-ibmca
* powerpc-utils
* ppc64-diag
* ppc64-utils
* publican-redhat
* python-rhsmm
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-as-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-bn-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-de-DE
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-en-US
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-es-ES
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-fr-FR
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-gu-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-hi-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-it-IT
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ja-JP
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-kn-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ko-KR
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ml-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-mr-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-or-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-pa-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-pt-BR
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ru-RU
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-si-LK
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ta-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-te-IN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-zh-CN
* Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-zh-TW
* redhat-logos
* redhat-release-notes-6Server
* redhat-support-lib-python
* redhat-support-tool
* s390utils
* servicelog
* subscription-manager
* subscription-manager-migration-data
* virt-who
* yaboot
A.4. Packages Added by Oracle
The following packages have been added to the base release by
Oracle:
* dtrace-modules-3.8.13-16.el6uek (x86-64 only)
* kernel-uek (2.6.39 for i386 and 3.8.13 for x86-64)
* libdtrace-ctf (x86-64 only)
* lxc (x86-64 only)
* ocfs2-tools
* oracleasm-support
* oracle-logos
* oraclelinux-release
* oraclelinux-release-notes
* oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall
* reflink
* uname26 (x86-64 only)
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