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Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
Release Notes for Oracle Linux 6.8
E75859-08
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 Btrfs File System Issues on UEK
- 2.2.2 OFED iSER Feature Causes Out-Of-Memory Error
- 2.2.3 Kernel panic when booting the Red Hat Compatible Kernel on a btrfs root partition
- 2.2.4 DTrace Issues
- 2.2.5 Linux Containers (LXC)
- 2.2.6 avahi-daemon Fails to Start with UEK R2
- 2.2.7 Booting UEK R2 as a PVHVM Guest
- 2.2.8 Console Appears to Hang when Booting
- 2.2.9 Default I/O Scheduler
- 2.2.10 Default NFS Mount Options
- 2.2.11 Default Reverse Path Filtering Mode Affects Certain Oracle Products
- 2.2.12 Enabling FIPS Mode
- 2.2.13 Error message Following First Reboot on an HP ProLiant Server
- 2.2.14 ext4 Inline Data
- 2.2.15 gcc-libraries Package
- 2.2.16 Incorrect Package Count
- 2.2.17 Intel TCO Watchdog Timer Messages
- 2.2.18 Mellanox ConnectX Drivers
- 2.2.19 mlx4_core Conflicts Between the mlnx_en and ofa Packages
- 2.2.20 mlx4_ib Insertion Error when RDMA Starts
- 2.2.21 Oracle Clusterware Fails to Start on ASM Storage with SELinux Enabled
- 2.2.22 Oracle RDBMS Server 11gR2 Preinstall Settings Not Visible After Installation
- 2.2.23 Oracle VM 3.0 Guests Crash During Oracle Database Installation
- 2.2.24 Oracle VM 3.3.1 32-bit Guests with UEK R2 Panic
- 2.2.25 Paravirtualized Drivers in a Hardware Virtualized Guest
- 2.2.26 RHCK Panics When an ext4 File System Is Defragmented
- 2.2.27 sched_yield() Settings for the Completely Fair Scheduler
- 2.2.28 Setting the Serial Console in a Hardware Virtualized Guest
- 2.2.29 Support for crashkernel=auto with Xen
- 2.2.30 Support for Large Memory 32-bit Systems
- 2.2.31 Unable to Register Oracle Linux Guest with ULN
- 2.2.32 Unable to Register with ULN After First Reboot
- 3 Upgrading to Oracle Linux 6 Update 8
- A Packages