Scientific Linux "SL 5.11" for x86_64 November 13, 2014 Items marked with a "*" indicate changes since 5.10 See SL.documentation for Upstream vendor release notes. Send comments/issues/test reports to scientific-linux-devel@fnal.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents DOWNLOAD INFO ADDED compared to Enterprise 5 UPDATED compared to Enterprise 5 Installer/legal modifications REMOVED compared to Enterprise 5 CHANGED by Upstream Vendor /contrib SRPMS HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS LIMITATIONS INFO ERRATA RPMS that have not built yet _____________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD INFO _____________________________________________________________________________ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/511/x86_64/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/511/x86_64/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/511/x86_64/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDED compared to vendor ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 915resolution 915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900 series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and 865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. This modification is necessary to allow the display of certain graphics resolutions for an Xorg or XFree86 graphics server. 915resolution's modifications of the BIOS are transient. There is no risk of permanent modification of the BIOS. This also means that 915resolution must be run every time the computer boots inorder for it's changes to take effect. 915resolution is derived from the tool 855resolution. However, the code differs substantially. 915resolution's code base is much simpler. 915resolution also allows the modification of bits per pixel. 915resolution-0.5.3-6.el5 alpine Alpine is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. Our version of alpine 2.00 has the following changes compared to our 1.0 version An /etc/alpine/pine.conf.sample file is installed, no longer overwriting an existing pine.conf Therefore an existing pine.conf in /etc/alpine will be left untouched even after the upgrade. For an installation from scratch it is advantageous to copy the sample conf file to pine.conf, but alpine works also without it. Users are now able to use a .alpine.passfile This version of alpine when it writes to a large old Unix mailbox format email area can be very slow. The best solution to this is to convert your old Unix mailbox files to "mix" format mail files. More info can be obtained from Evaluation of file formats: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2008-July/000971.html Problem description: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2009-February/thread.html#1658 Conversion : http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/comp-mail-imap/198358-mailutil-mix-file-size.html alpine-2.02-2.el5 AUFS Aufs is a stackable unification filesystem such as Unionfs, which unifies several directories and provides a merged single directory. Aufs is an entirely re-designed and re-implemented Unionfs. aufs-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5 * kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-398.el5-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm * kernel-module-aufs-2.6.18-398.el5xen-0.20090202.cvs-6.sl5.x86_64.rpm cfitsio CFITSIO is a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format. CFITSIO is widely used in the astronomical community. cfitsio-3.100-1.el5 cfitsio-devel-3.100-1.el5 dkms This package contains the framework for the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) method for installing module RPMS as originally developed by Dell. Updated dkms to the latest version from EPEL dkms-2.2.0.3-1.el5 dropit dropit's intended purpose is to remove directories entries from a PATH shell variable value, which has colon separated fields. dropit is usable in sh, ksh, and csh shell script files. dropit-1.2-1 FUSE Is now provided by the Upstream Vendor and thus is included. FUSE Addons fuse-smb fuse-Filesystem to fast and easy access remote resources via smb With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network neighbourhood as were it on your own filesystem fuse-smb-0.8.7-1.SL fuse-sshfs This is a FUSE-filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh. Newer versions are now in EPEL fuse-sshfs-2.2-1.SL gnuplot42 gnuplot42 is the 4.2 version of gnuplot. It has several functions that were not available in the SL5 gnuplot 4.0 version. gnuplot42-4.2.6-6.el5 gnuplot42-doc-4.2.6-6.el5 gnuplot42-latex-4.2.6-6.el5 Graphviz Graph Visualization Tools graphviz-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-devel-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-doc-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-gd-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-graphs-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-guile-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-java-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-lua-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-perl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-php-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-python-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-ruby-2.24.0-1.el5.sl graphviz-tcl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl lua Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Dependency of graphwiz. lua-5.1.2-1.el5 lua-devel-5.1.2-1.el5 icewm A lightweight window manager for the X Window System. icewm-1.2.37-1.2 icewm-l10n-1.2.37-1.2 imlib Imlib is a display depth independent image loading and rendering library. A dependency of icewm. imlib-1.9.15-11.el5 imlib-devel-1.9.15-11.el5 Intel wireless firmware (ucode) The firmware (ucode) provided in these packages are required to be present on your system in order for the respective IntelŪ Wireless drivers to be able to operate on your system. On adapter initialization, and at varying times during the uptime of the adapter, the microcode is loaded into the RAM on the network adapter. The microcode provides the low level MAC features including radio control and high precision timing events (backoff, transmit, etc.) while also providing varying levels of packet filtering which can be used to keep the host from having to handle packets that are not of interest given the current operating mode of the device. These packages contains all releases of the firmware up to the version stated, as well as their respective README documents. ipw3945 was removed in SL 5.4, it was replaced by iwlwifi and it's 3945 ucode (firmware) iwlwifi-XXXX-ucode was replaced with iwlXXXX-firmware in SL 5.7 This replacement was to be more inline with TUV. * kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-398.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm * kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-398.el5xen-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm ipw2100-firmware-1.3-10.noarch.rpm ipw2200-firmware-3.1-3.noarch.rpm iwl1000-firmware-128.50.3.1-2.el5.noarch.rpm iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-4.el5.noarch.rpm iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-8.el5.noarch.rpm iwl5000-firmware-8.24.2.12-3.el5.noarch.rpm iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm ndiswrapper The previously bundled ndiswrapper package has been removed in SL5.9 The package no longer built successfully against the current kernel. Current ndiswrapper kernel module and utility packages are avalible in external repos such as elrepo. JAVA The closed-source Java 6 packages are end of life as of Feb 2013. They are not included in SL5 starting with SL5.9 . Openjdk 1.6 and 1.7 are included by TUV. It is believed that openjdk is an acceptable replacement. The closed-source packages can still be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/ kdeedu Educational/Edutainment applications for KDE kstars is part of this package kdeedu-3.5.4-1.el5 kdeedu-devel-3.5.4-1.el5 Multimedia gstreamer-plugins-extras-0.10.9-2.sl from SL4 gstreamer-plugins-fluendo-0.10-14.el5 k3b-extras-0.12.17-3.sl from livna Repository These are dependencies of the above rpms. lame-3.97-1.sl from RPMforge lame-devel-3.97-1.sl from RPMforge libid3tag-0.15.1b-3.sl from RPMforge libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl from RPMforge libmad-0.15.1b-4.sl from RPMforge libmad-devel-0.15.1b-4.sl from RPMforge taglib-1.4-1.2.sl from RPMforge taglib-devel-1.4-1.2.sl from RPMforge NumPy http://numpy.scipy.org// NumPy derives from the old Numeric code base and can be used as a replacement for Numeric. It also adds the features introduced by Numarray and can also be used to replace Numarray. This package contains: - a powerful N-dimensional array object - sophisticated (broadcasting) functions - basic linear algebra functions - basic Fourier transforms - sophisticated random number capabilities - tools for integrating Fortran code. numpy-1.2.1-1 OpenAFS We have put in the 1.4.14 release of openafs. * patch 1080 with aklog/524 fix from gerrit 11536 * manpage update from 11538 openafs-firstboot-1.4-1.SL * kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-398.el5-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-398.el5xen-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-authlibs-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-authlibs-devel-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-client-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-compat-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-debug-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-devel-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-kernel-source-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-kpasswd-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-krb5-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm * openafs-server-1.4.15-85.sl5.x86_64.rpm perl modules These perl modules have been added as they are useful. Updated perl modules from EPEL perl-DBD-XBase-0.241-6.el5 perl-MailTools-1.77-2.el5 perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.94-1 perl-SQL-Statement-1.15-5.el5 perl-TermReadKey-2.30-5.el5 perl-Text-CSV_XS-0.23-1 perl-Text-Template-1.44-5.el5 perl-Tk-804.028-3.el5 qemu Added due to requirements for kvm. This is for x86_64 only. qemu-0.9.1-11.el5.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.9.1-11.el5.x86_64.rpm R http://www.r-project.org/ R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. R-2.13.1-1.sl5 R-devel-2.13.1-1.sl5 libRmath-2.13.1-1.sl5 libRmath-devel-2.13.1-1.sl5 Ralink wireless firmware The firmware provided in these packages are required to be present on your system in order for the respective RalinkŪ wireless drivers to be able to operate on your system. rt61pci-firmware-1.2-5.el5.noarch.rpm rt73usb-firmware-1.8-5.el5.noarch.rpm scipy Scipy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. The core library is NumPy which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and optimization. scipy-0.6.0-6.el5 fftw FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of both real and complex data, and of arbitrary input size. Part of scipy. fftw3-3.1.2-5.el5.1 fftw3-devel-3.1.2-5.el5.1 suitesparse suitesparse is a collection of libraries for computations involving sparse matrices. Part of scipy . suitesparse-3.1.0-1.el5 suitesparse-devel-3.1.0-1.el5 suitesparse-static-3.1.0-1.el5 SL_afs_no_dynroot-2.0-2.noarch.rpm This package removes the -dynroot option from the openafs config Restarting of afs is needed for this to take effect. This rpm does not restart afs SL_desktop_tweaks-5-4.noarch.rpm This adds a terminal icon to the kicker panel for both KDE and GNOME. This also changed the KDE startup background from red to black Installed by default for both KDE and GNOME. SL_enable_serialconsole-3.1-6.noarch.rpm This script makes all the changes necessary to send console output to both the serial port and the screen. This also creates a login prompt on the serial port and allows users to login at this prompt. SL_no_colorls-1.0-3.noarch.rpm Turns off "color" of ls. Not installed by default. SL_password_for_singleuser-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Changes /etc/inittab to require the root password for single user mode. Not installed by default. This used to be SL_inittab_change SL_rpm_show_arch-1.0-2.noarch.rpm Adds arch to "rpm -qa" listing. Now umask friendly SL_sendmail_accept-1.1-3.noarch.rpm Changes Sendmail config so that it allows incomming mail. Not installed by default. tidy When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities. tidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5 libtidy-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5 libtidy-devel-0.99.0-12.20070228.sl5 XFS XFS is a highly scalable, high-performance journaling filesystem that provides rapid recovery from system crashes. Because the xfs driver is now in the kernel we are removing kernel-module-xfs, xfs, xfs-filesystem We are still providing the utilities needed to manage XFS xfsdump, xfsprogs, dmapi xfsdump-2.2.46-1.sl5 xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.sl5 xfsprogs-devel-2.9.4-1.sl5 dmapi-2.2.8-1.sl5 dmapi-devel-2.2.8-1.sl5 Yumex Yumex is a graphical user interface for yum. yumex-2.0.3-1.0.el5.noarch.rpm yum-utils yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and more powerful to use. Some utilities are plugin's. yum-installonlyn has been incorporated into yum See comments in yum.conf on how to change settings for installonlyn yum-utils has been updated to the version provided by TUV TUV doesn't include all of the plugins the go along with the yum-utils version they provide. We include all of the plugins. This is the full list of the yum-utils packages and utilities provided by yum itself. yum-aliases yum-changelog yum-downloadonly yum-fastestmirror yum-filter-data yum-keys yum-kmod yum-list-data yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher yum-priorities yum-protectbase yum-protect-packages yum-security yum-tmprepo yum-updateonboot yum-utils yum-verify yum-versionlock yum-allowdowngrade-1.1.16-14.sl5.1 yum-merge-conf-1.1.16-14.sl5.1 yum-refresh-updatesd-1.1.16-14.sl5.1 yum-tsflags-1.1.16-14.sl5.1 yum-upgrade-helper-1.1.16-14.sl5.1 MISC Added these rpms because they are important but upstream vendor did not include them. gv-3.6.2-2.sl5 from Stephan Wiesand Pine has been replaced by alpine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changed RPMS compared to vendor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Installer(anaconda) anaconda-11.1.2.263-2.SL anaconda-runtime-11.1.2.263-2.SL XFS Utilities are now in the rescue image x86_64 only: Can now boot off an xfs partition. Brent Bates provided the XFS anaconda patches. Removed code to verify that timezone is correct in kickstart as it had bugs Added kernel-module.py yum plugin during the install Modified pkgorder with patches from CentOS Modified installclasses/rhel.py to remove key request Modified installclasses/rhel.py to include SL groups sites support see sites/example Note: Installing sites on a virtual machine When installing a paravirtulized site, you have to point at the site directory, such as 5rolling/i386/sites/example When installing a fully virtulized site, you only have to point to the base directory, like you usually would, such as 5rolling/x86_64/sites/example comps.xml Updated some group names and descriptions to work better internationally In Update 1 The Upstream Vendor changed their comps.xml files to reflect a different sorting structure, as well as clean up extra files from their short term linux release. In Update 2 The Upstream Vendor added more packages to their comps.xml comps-sl.xml has been changed to incorporate most of The Upstream Vendors changes. Since we have merged their various comps.xml files, our comps.xml will never really look like theirs. But this change brings ours more in line with their Update 2 versions. In Update 4 The Upstream Vendor added packages, and changed their x86_64 comps.xml to be different than their i386 version. We have updated our comps.xml to reflect their changes in packages and groups. We have also updated our comps.xml file to be friendly to more languages. In Update 5 The Upstream Vendor added the group "conflicts". This group includes packages conflicting with @everything installation. This group was added, as were the other minor changes TUV did. There are minimal changes compared to the "vendor" release. We have changed the "rpms" that are required to be changed. These changes are defined by the "vendor". logos, artwork & release redhat-logos was changed to add the "photographs" shown during the install redhat-artwork-5.0.9-2.SL.4 redhat-logos-4.9.16-2.sl5.6.noarch.rpm sl-release changes the default mozilla and firefox bookmarks. sl-release changes the default rhn configuration to use yum and points this configuration to ftp.scientificlinux.org sl-release removed the firstboot additional cd's question * sl-release-5.11-2.sl * sl-release-notes-5.11-1.noarch.rpm These rpm's are not required to be changed by the vendor, but we felt they needed to be changed gdm Changed the default theme from RHEL to EaseOfBlue pirut Removed "Requires: rhn-setup-gnome" rhgb Changed the colors. buildsys-macros A collection of macros for our build system python-virtinst virtinst is a module to help in starting installations inside of virtual machines. It supports both paravirt guests as well as fully virtualized guests. It uses libvirt (http://www.libvirt.org) for starting things. Also contained is a simple script virt-install which uses virtinst in a command line mode. python-virtinst would understand a plain Scientific Linux install, but it didn't understand sites. We have added a patch to allow it to understand and install paravirtualized SL Sites. python-virtinst-0.400.3-13.sl5.noarch.rpm yum Yum version 2.4 and above has the kernel-module plugin that let's yum understand how kernel-module rpm's are related to kernels. Because of this updates dealing with kernel-module rpm's (such as afs) now work yum-conf priorities have been set on the repositories. But you have to have yum-priorities installed for them to take effect. metadata_expire variable was set to 20 hours to allow for normal users to be able to use yum for those commands they can run yum-conf has the following repositories in it sl-base (enabled) sl-security (enabled) sl-testing (not enabled) sl-fastbugs (not enabled) atrpms (not enabled) dag (not enabled) Not all repositories are enabled by default. To enable them for one time use, use the --enablerepo command, such as yum --enablerepo=atrpms list mplayer yum --enablerepo=dag install xine If you want the repositories to be enabled all the time then you need to edit the config files and change enabled=0 to enabled=1. The config files are in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and are named like /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo NOTE1: Just because a yum repository exists does NOT mean it is compatible with all other yum repositories. We have included the repositories we did because they usually work well together. But if there is a problem with one of the packages in a repository, please contact that repository maintainer. yum-autoupdate yum-autoupdate has the check for a running yum in it, so that if yum has been running for a long time (close to 24 hours), when the yum.cron starts up, it will kill the old yum. This was changed because we had reports that yum was hanging and we didn't want this to interfere with updates. yum-autoupdate checks to see how long the machine is been up If it is up less than 20 hours, it doesn't wait, but does the update. If it is longer than 20 hours, it waits a random time, up to 3 hours. This uptime check was done to help laptops and other machines that might not be on long enough to wait for the random time. The random time was put it in so that servers arn't overwhelmed. yum-cron is the yum-cron from epel. yum-cron has a different cron script than is provided in yum-autoupdate. yum-conf-5x was created for those users who want to be at the latest stable release. It is always pointing at the 5x area. This means that when we make new versions you will automatically be upgraded to them. Starting with SL 5.9, yum-conf-5x is automatically installed. Users wishing for the historical behavior can remove the package with 'yum remove yum-conf-5x' yum-conf-epel has been added so that people could use the epel yum repository. This rpm requires both yum-provides and yum-fastestmirror yum-conf-elrepo has been added so that people can easily install the elrepo repository. This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror . yum-conf-adobe has been added so that people can easily install the adobe repository. This rpm requires yum-fastestmirror . * yum-conf-511-2.sl.noarch.rpm yum-conf-5x-2-1.sl5.noarch.rpm yum-3.2.22-39.sl.noarch.rpm yum-conf-elrepo-5-1.noarch.rpm yum-conf-adobe-5-1.i686.rpm yum-conf-adobe-5-1.x86_64.rpm yum-conf-epel-5-1.noarch.rpm yum-cron-0.6-3.el5.noarch.rpm yum-updatesd-0.9-5.sl.noarch.rpm yum-autoupdate-1.2-1.SL.noarch.rpm Apache Changed index.html to not have Upstream Vendor info but to have SL info. * httpd-2.2.3-87.sl5 * httpd-devel-2.2.3-87.sl5 * httpd-manual-2.2.3-87.sl5 * mod_ssl-2.2.3-87.sl5 gdm Change config file to include the "Last" option Add theme "EaseOfBlue" Changed default theme to be EaseOfBlue Changed because of TradeMark of TUV. updated to latest upstream version * gdm-2.16.0-59.sl5.1 * gdm-docs-2.16.0-59.sl5.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMOVED compared to Enterprise 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have removed these RHN tools as they cannot be used for SL rhel-instnum subscription-manager subscription-manager-firstboot subscription-manager-gnome * redhat-support-lib-python * redhat-support-tool We have removed the cc-ael4 config files as SL has not been reviewed for this certification cc-eal4-config-rhel56 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- /SL/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The location of the rpms. The Upstream Vendor's release consists of 2 cd sets, Server and Client. Each cd set has a group of directories which contain the actual rpms. On the Client cd this consists of Client,Workstation and VT. On the Server cd this consists of Server,VT,Cluster, ClusterStorage. The VT directory contains the same rpms on each cd. The Cluster, ClusterStorage and Workstation directories do not have any common rpms. The Client and Server directories contain many common rpms along with many unique rpms. Scientific Linux has combined all of the rpm's from Client, Server, VT, Cluster, ClusterStorage, and Workstation into the SL directory. You are not asked to enter any key, since you have access to all packages. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- /contrib/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RPMS provided by colaboraters that either cannot go in main release or are intesting before going into main release. See the SRPMS section for source rpms ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- /updates/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- security Security errata fastbugs Packages rebuilt from the Upstream Vendor "bugfix" rpms These are rpms that are expected to be in the next Update They have gone through full QA by the Upstream Vendor --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /../SRPMS/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /SL/ Contains the SRPMS for what we added or changed. Put these in the top level directory as these are really the ones we changed. All the others can be obtained from the upstream vendor ftp updates area /vendor/ The upstream vendors SRPMS. This directory contains both the original released SRPMS, as well as the updated SRPMS /contrib/ SRPMS for the contrib packages /sites//SRPMS SRPMS for sites, if there is a site --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /../archive/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /obsolete/ Packages that used to be in the release but have been updated /debuginfo/ Debuginfo packages ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIMITATIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ipw2100, ipw2200, ipw3945 Does not work in the installer ftp install Currently, during an ftp install when it get's the the graphical section, there is a long pause (close to a minute) when it sits at a blank screen. It is NOT frozen, it is just searching for files that are not there. Give it a couple minutes and it will continue. NVIDIA motherboard chipsets May need to use linux noapic to install. Intel 965 motherboard chipset May need to use linux all-generic-ide if you have pata hardware Yum Update When upgrading to SL 5.x from a version earlier that 5.3, you need to update glibc first, and then update the rest of your system. # yum update glibc # yum update If you don't update glibc first, then you will continually get errors during your upgrade that say something similar to rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument Graphical Desktop After doing a clean install, sometimes the monitor isn't configured properly and Xorg.conf does not contain all required information. Result is a garbled display when entering runlevel 5. Workaround: After the installation, reboot the system normally and run the firstboot utility. Reboot the system into runlevel 3. Log in as root and run system-config-display and configure the display manually. Some machines that use NVIDIA graphics cards may display corrupted graphics or fonts when using the graphical installer or during a graphical login. To work around this, switch to a virtual console and back to the original X host to refresh X. Intel Wireless Due to outstanding driver issues with hardware encryption acceleration, users of Intel WiFi Link 4965, 5100, 5150, 5300, and 5350 wireless cards are advised to disable hardware accelerated encryption using module parameters. Failure to do so may result in the inability to connect to Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protected wireless networks after connecting to WiFi Protected Access (WPA) protected wireless networks. To do so, add the following options to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias wlan0 iwlagn options iwlagn swcrypto50=1 swcrypto=1 (where wlan0 is the default interface name of the first Intel WiFi Link device) Removable Storage Removable storage devices (such as CDs and DVDs) do not automatically mount when you are logged in as root. As such, you will need to manually mount the device through the graphical file manager. Alternatively, you can run the following command to mount a device to /media: mount /dev/[device name] /media ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Site https://www.scientificlinux.org FTP http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/511/ http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/511/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/511/ Mailing Lists scientific-linux-devel@fnal.gov Development of Scientific Linux scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Users of Scientific Linux supporting each other scientific-linux-announce@fnal.gov Announcements concerning Scientific Linux scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov Announcements about Security Errata scientific-linux-mirrors@fnal.gov Announcements concerning mirroing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERRATA rebuilt from SRPMS that were released after TUV Update 11 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Security errata will not be placed in the default install tree as has been done with prior releases of Scientific Linux 5. They will only reside in the updates/security/ directory. You will have to do a "yum -y update" after the installation via DVD to install all the security errata.