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Release Notes for Oracle Linux 6.6
E57668-11
March 2021
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 New Features and Changes
- 2 Fixed and Known Issues
- 2.1 Fixed Issues
- 2.2 Known Issues
- 2.2.1 Updating Oracle Linux Fails if the kernel-uek Package Cannot Be Updated
- 2.2.2 avahi-daemon Fails to Start with UEK R2
- 2.2.3 Booting UEK R2 as a PVHVM Guest
- 2.2.4 Btrfs File System Issues
- 2.2.5 Console Appears to Hang when Booting
- 2.2.6 Default I/O Scheduler
- 2.2.7 Default NFS Mount Options
- 2.2.8 Default Reverse Path Filtering Mode Affects Certain Oracle Products
- 2.2.9 dm-cache and dm-era
- 2.2.10 DTrace Issues
- 2.2.11 Enabling FIPS Mode
- 2.2.12 Error message Following First Reboot on an HP ProLiant Server
- 2.2.13 ext4 Inline Data
- 2.2.14 gcc-libraries Package
- 2.2.15 Incorrect Package Count
- 2.2.16 Intel TCO Watchdog Timer Messages
- 2.2.17 Journal Corruption in Virtualized Systems
- 2.2.18 Kdump Service Configuration
- 2.2.19 kernel-uek-headers Package
- 2.2.20 Linux Containers
- 2.2.21 Mellanox ConnectX Drivers
- 2.2.22 mlx4_core Conflicts Between the mlnx_en and ofa Packages
- 2.2.23 Oracle Clusterware Fails to Start on ASM Storage with SELinux Enabled
- 2.2.24 Oracle RDBMS Server 11gR2 Preinstall Settings Not Visible After Installation
- 2.2.25 Oracle VM 3.0 Guests Crash During Oracle Database Installation
- 2.2.26 Paravirtualized Drivers in a Hardware Virtualized Guest
- 2.2.27 Post-Installation Anaconda Errors
- 2.2.28 RDMA Does Not Load the mlx4_ib Module
- 2.2.29 Receive Packet Steering Errors
- 2.2.30 sched_yield() Settings for the Completely Fair Scheduler
- 2.2.31 Setting the Serial Console in a Hardware Virtualized Guest
- 2.2.32 Shared Receive Queue Panic
- 2.2.33 Support for crashkernel=auto with Xen
- 2.2.34 Support for Large Memory 32-bit Systems
- 2.2.35 Unable to Register Oracle Linux Guest with ULN
- 2.2.36 Unable to Register with ULN After First Reboot
- 2.2.37 Upgrading rhn-client-tools
- 2.2.38 XFS File System Corruption
- 2.2.39 XFS File System Panic
- 2.2.40 xguest Package Not Installable with SELinux Disabled
- 3 Upgrading to Oracle Linux 6 Update 6
- A Packages