[dundee] Fwd: [Ksplice #9105] Ksplice CVE-2014-3153 update fails on Fedora 19

[gordon dunlop]

I thought everyone would like to know the reply I got from Oracle which was
quick (+1 for that). I have a funny feeling this will turn into some sort
of a saga as I have tried about 30 times to install this update on my
workstation. I have stopped any vm's, killed libvirt and there are very
little processes going on. TOP shows only 1% CPU and 1% Memory being
utilised so there is very little going on and still it would not update
after a lot more tries. If it doesn't work on a desktop with little
activity how is it going to work on a server? I have set the configuration
to autoinstall. On a personal note I don't like auto updates as I want to
know what the updates are prior to installing. I use yum-cron on my servers
that checks and downloads updates but not install them at 4.am every day.
An email is then sent to my gmail account via a Postfix relay with SASL
authentication and TLS encryption (Google allows up to 500 emails daily
with this method) to inform me what updates are ready for installing. I
will have it set on autoinstall for a week, if it updates I will eat my Red
Hat :-).

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jamie Iles via RT <ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com>
Date: 12 June 2014 09:31
Subject: [Ksplice #9105] Ksplice CVE-2014-3153 update fails on Fedora 19
To: zubenel at fedoraproject.org


Hi Gordon,

Ksplice includes a number of safety checks to ensure that updates can be
safely applied. Sometimes (typically on heavily loaded machines), these
precautions can prevent certain updates from being applied, leading to the
error message you saw. Typically, all it takes to get an update installed
is retrying it a few times.
If re-running uptrack-upgrade a few times by hand doesn't work, what you
can do is enable autoinstall briefly for this machine. Then Uptrack can do
the work of spacing out attempts (to take advantage of load changes) for
you. Is enabling autoinstall briefly an option for you?
You can enable autoinstall by setting "autoinstall = yes" in the
/etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf on your machines.

Thanks,

Jamie

-- 
Gordon
www.zubenel.org.uk
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