[RHCE] Red Hat 7.3 install problems.

[Jason Tower]

i installed 7.3 on my other poweredge 1400 server and had the exact same
scsi issue (failed to insert module during kernel boot).  after
installation a quick 'hdparm -tT /dev/sda' yields a scsi disk throughput
of about 20MB/s, far short of the 53-56MB/s i got under 7.2.  and you can
tell the difference, installs that used to take 15 minutes now take over
half an hour.  on IDE systems everything is fine.  i've had a few other
7.3 problems as well - KDE display problems with ATI video cards (which
most of my boxes have), major nfs problems (the daemon can take up to 10
minutes to start, and even then it is very slow to respond, tons of
duplicate messages in /var/log/messages), and a few other minor things as
well.  i've gone back to 7.2 for the time being, i just don't have the
time to troubleshoot these things right now.  but i'm frustrated because i
didn't have to troubleshoot anything with 7.1 and 7.2 - they both worked
flawlessly right out of the box.  i kinda feel like RH let me down a
little with this release.
if anyone else has experienced nfs issues with 7.3, please let me know,
that issue really has piqued my curiosity.
jason

> I run RH 7.3 on a legion of boxes - both scsi and ide.  I've not had a
> problem.  In fact this seems to a fairly robust release.  What problem
> are  you seeing?
>
> On Thursday 13 June 2002 06:26 am, sholton wrote:
>> I had a quick chance to install RH 7.3 last night and had
>> pretty much the same problem I mentioned in class again.
>> First indication is that SCSI fails to initialize at startup.
>>
>> It appears that depmod -a does not work for me. Could be
>> something wrong with the package, or choking on something in my
>> setup.
>>
>> I'll have to look into this more when I have a chance, but for
>> now I'd caution you all not to install RH 7.3 onto a critical box.
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