[lug] Issues with RedHat Enterprise

[Hugh Brown]

We've had issues with firefox randomly crashing (ditto for thunderbird) 
that started shortly after the last pair of updates for both packages.

The redhat mailing list had some traffic about a user having bad 
performance with glibc on RH5 (as compared to SuSE and RH4).

We are running RH5 clients with all software installed locally and home 
dirs NFS mounted from an HP-UX box.

Hugh

User Dan Ferris wrote:
> So I'm taking it that the compiler wasn't NFS like I had originally 
> thought :(
> 
> Bummer...
> 
> The Firefox thing definatly sounds like libraries.
> 
> I have no idea about the Matlab issue.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Steve A Hart wrote:
> 
>> OK..here's the rundown...
>>
>> Server is running RedHat Enterprise 4
>> All Clients running RedHat Enterprise 5 Client
>>
>> All programs are compiled for RedHat Ent4 and are stored in 
>> /usr/local. /usr/local and all home directories are stored on the 
>> server and automounted to the clients.
>>
>> Of course now that I have all my clients running RHEnt5 I'm starting 
>> to see some issues pop up.
>>
>> 1.  Firefox tends to crash randomly.  Traced problem to a possible 
>> interaction issue between the compiled program in RHEnt4 and the 
>> support libraries needed by firefox that are found on the Ent5 clients.
>>
>> 2.  Some Matlab scripts are running slow.  A code that took 0.1 
>> seconds to run before the upgrade now takes 35 seconds to run
>>
>> 3.  C++ compilers that came with Ent5 on the clients seems to run slow 
>> as well.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any problems between RedHat Ent4 and Ent5?  I mean 
>> I know they are different versions but they can't be THAT different 
>> from each other. I'd expect interaction problems between Redhat and 
>> say Ubuntu systems for example but not two sucessive versions of 
>> RedHat Enterprise.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Steve