Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
- 1 System Requirements and Limitations
- 2 Supported Architectures
- 3 Shipped Kernels
- 4 New Features and Changes
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5
Known Issues
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Installation, Upgrade, and Boot Issues
- Upgrade from ULN fails if the openscap-containers package is installed
- Graphical installer allows users to edit kickstart settings
- Graphical installer does not produce error when unacceptable Kdump value is entered
- Graphical installer does not display the reserved memory that is manually set for Kdump
- FCoE boot fails on HPE servers with HPE FlexFabric adapters
- Installation on an iSCSI disk
- Information about installation on an HPE 3PAR TPVV
- Installation fails on Aura7 NVMe device
- Upgrade fails if open files limit is too low and rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit is installed
- 32-bit RDMA packages are installed when upgrading a system that has rdma-core installed
- Package Conflict: PackageKit.i686 and PackageKit.x86_64
- Database installation and operation fails if RemoveIPC=yes is configured for systemd
- Automatic Bug Reporting Tool
- File Systems Issues
- grubby fatal error during kernel upgrade when /boot is on a BTRFS subvolume
- Hebrew LaTeX fonts
- Kdump might fail on some AMD hardware
- InfiniBand Issues
- Snapshots of KVM guests that use UEFI fail and are unsupported
- KVM guests with LSI MegaRAID SAS ISCSI controller limited to 7 virtual disks
- Uninstalling libpcap can result in the removal of a large number of libvirt packages
- Unable to create Oracle Linux 7 LXC containers on NFS
- Support for Oracle Linux 7 guests on Oracle VM and Xen
- Network Issues
- Power button defaults to ACPI Suspend
- sosreport command issues warnings in Oracle Linux 7.8
- Unable to customize guest name during installation with Virtual Machine Manager
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Installation, Upgrade, and Boot Issues
- 6 Installation and Availability
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7
Release-Specific Information for Oracle Linux 7.8 (aarch64)
- System Requirements and Limitations (aarch64)
- Shipped Kernel (aarch64)
- New Features (aarch64)
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Known Issues (aarch64)
- Support Limited to Text-Mode Environments and Server Software
- Installation Issues
- btrfs-convert operation results in a file system that cannot be mounted
- Manual execution of shim first-stage boot loader may fail in the UEFI shell
- Kdump tools fail to create a vmcore-dmesg.txt on systems with multiple CPUs
- Segmentation fault when running bluedevil-wizard
- dsktune command fails with an unsupported error message
- Installation and Availability (aarch64)
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8
Package Changes from the Upstream Release
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Changes to Binary Packages
- Added Binary Packages for x86_64 by Oracle
- Modified Binary Packages for x86_64
- Modified Optional Binary Packages for x86_64
- New Binary Packages for x86_64
- Removed Binary Packages for x86_64
- Added Binary Packages by Oracle for aarch64
- Modified Binary Packages
- Modified Optional Binary Packages for aarch64
- New Binary Packages for aarch64
- Removed Binary Packages for aarch64
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Changes to Source Packages
- Added Source Packages for x86_64 by Oracle
- Modified Source Packages for x86_64
- Modified Optional Source Packages for x86_64
- New Source Packages for x86_64
- Removed Source Packages for x86_64
- Added Source Packages for aarch64 by Oracle
- Modified Source Packages for aarch64
- Modified Optional Source Packages for aarch64
- New Source Packages for aarch64
- Removed Source Packages for aarch64
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Changes to Binary Packages