Availability of kmod-oracleasm package with the 6.5 and 6.6 kernels.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6
  • kmod-oracleasm

Issue

  • kmod-oracleasm version 2.0.6.rh1-2.el6 depends on the following kernel version. So it is not available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (2.6.32-431.el6)

    kernel >= 2.6.32-358.el6
kernel < 2.6.32-359.el6

  • kmod-oracleasm version 2.0.6.rh1-3.el6_5 depends on the following kernel version. It is not available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 (2.6.32-504.el6)

    kernel >= 2.6.32-431.el6
kernel < 2.6.32-432.el6

  • Oracle ASM drivers not compatible with the new kernel. We have updated the Kernel to RHEL version 6 update 6 without an update to the Oracle ASM drivers whcih caused all ASM storage to be unreachable. No Oracle ASM library package is listed as available for RHEL v 6.6?

  • kmod-oracleasm (version- 2.0.6.rh1-2.el6) not provided with RHEL 6.6 release

    • Does package kmod-oracleasm also support kernel-2.6.32-431 and kernel-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64?

    • Is it ok to install kmod-oracleasm 2.0.6.rh1-3.el6_5 on RHEL6.5 with kernel-2.6.32-431 or kernel-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64?

Resolution

Root Cause

  • For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, this issue was tracked at BZ#1056772.
  • For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, this issue was tracked at BZ#1157408 (private).

Diagnostic Steps

  • This package requires the kernel version to be greater than or equal to 2.6.32-431.el6 and less than 2.6.32-432.el6. Check the below output
$ rpm -qpR kmod-oracleasm-2.0.6.rh1-3.el6_5.x86_64.rpm 
[ ... ]
kernel >= 2.6.32-431.el6
kernel < 2.6.32-432.el6

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