Users Guide

Programs Or Utilities Related To RPM May Fail To Complete

Description If programs or utilities related to RPM fail to complete, you can recover the program or utility

by killing the offending program or utility and then removing the RPM database lock files using

the rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db command.

lspci Reports Unknown Devices

Description When lspci is used to display information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices

connected to them, the output may contain a few unknown devices.

Workaround Use one of the following methods to update the pciids:

• Download the latest pci.ids file from pciids.sourceforge.net and save it at: /usr/share/

hwdata/pci.ids.

• Use the update-pciids utility to download the latest pci.ids file.

Cause The issue occurs because the pci.ids file does not contain the definition of the hardware.

Issues Fixed In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 9

This section contains information about issues, resolutions, and workarounds when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Update 9 on your Dell system.

Release Notes Missing From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 8 Installer

Description During the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 8, the welcome screen is displayed

with a link to the Release Notes. When you click on this link, the following error message

appears: Release notes are missing.

Workaround This issue is resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 9. For more information, refer to the

Red Hat Kbase article at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/235783.

Unable To Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 7 And Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Update 8 Using Dell Deployment Methods

Description During the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

update 8, symlinks are unavailable. For example, /dev/fd link to /proc/self/fd link is

missing during the installation and the following error message is displayed:

#ls -l /dev/fd

No such file or directory.

The link for /proc/self/fd is missing and this causes the dkms driver installation to fail

thereby corrupting the operating system installation when using Dell deployment methods.

Cause The newer version of dkms uses process redirection in core functions like dkms install, dkms

status, and so on causing the installation of the critical drivers to fail.

Workaround To install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 8, use

manual methods and download the drivers from dell.com/support.