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Resolved issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 kickstart installation may fail
Description Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 fails to install using the kickstart method. After rebooting, it displays the following
error:
Specified BIOS disk 80 cannot be determined.
Kickstart fails when onbiosdisk=80 is used in kickstart le. The onbiosdisk forces the partition to be created on a
particular disk as discovered by the BIOS.
Cause There is a bug in the Anaconda code where it wrongly decodes hexadecimal0x80 as 0x128.
Network connections display the last used status as never in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Description Even though the network connections are functioning, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 /6.1 displays the last used
status as Never.
Workaround Disable or uninstall NetworkManager. For network usage statistics, use the command ifconfig.
NOTE: Red Hat does not recommend using NetworkManager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux server operating systems.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 displays a dbus netlink poll error
after installation
Description
After a clean install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, the event log displays the following error:
dbus: avc: netlink poll: error 4
This issue is also seen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1.
Workaround Turn o SELinux.
Cause The dbus is not compatible with the policies of SELinux.
Network manager error in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
operating system log
Description
After a clean installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, the Operating System event log (/var/log/messages)
contains the following errors:
GRST04 NetworkManager[6257]: [1324512946.32629] [nm-manager.c:1313]
user_proxy_init(): could not init user settings proxy: (3) Could not get owner
of name 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings': no such name
Cause Network Manager tries to initialize user proxy settings even when it is not active.
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