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Why won OMSA 1.2 install with kernel 2.4.18-3 as found in Red Hat Linux 7.3?

April 26, 2017install Kernel linux omsa red hat

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Why won OMSA 1.2 install with kernel 2.4.18-3 as found in Red Hat Linux 7.3?

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The 2.4.18-3 kernel has a nasty data corruption bug with the ext3 file system. This was corrected in the 2.4.18-4 kernel and all subsequent kernels. Dell recommends customers *not* use 2.4.18-3 for this reason, please upgrade to a later errata kernel using Red Hat Network. OMSA knows of this issue and refuses to install on 2.4.18-3 to avoid this data corruption problem.