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Issue 6
Description: On RHEL flavors, if an RPM Database corruption is encountered while installing
OpenManage Server Administrator (Server Administrator), enter the following command to rebuild the
database:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
You can then proceed with installing Server Administrator.
Open Issues and Resolutions for Novell SLES10 or SLES11 Operating
Systems
Issue 1
Description: The SLES 10 or SLES 11 operating system installation may fail on systems equipped with
multiple RAID and/or SCSI controllers, installed on the system board or in PCI slots. This failure may
occur when using Server Setup or performing a manual installation. When two or more RAID or SCSI
controllers exist, install SLES 10 or SLES 11 with only one configured RAID or SCSI controller. Configure
the other controllers after you install the SLES 10 or SLES 11 operating system.
Issue 2
Description: When certain cards, notably Qlogic or Emulex fiber channel cards, are present in PowerEdge
R805 and PowerEdge M905 systems, SLES 11 (and other Linux kernels later than 2.6.27) may cause the
system to reboot when drivers for those cards are loaded.
The issue occurs because the Linux kernel changes the memory address assignments to certain add-on
PCI devices such that they overlap the second I/O APIC interrupt controller in the system.
To work around the issue on PowerEdge R805, set the Optical Drive Controller (under Integrated Devices)
to "On" in the system setup. This changes the system resource assignments such that this issue does not
occur. If this workaround fails, add the kernel parameter acpi=noirq to the kernel command line to
prevent the Linux kernel from using the I/O APIC interrupt controllers.
To work around the issue on PowerEdge M905, add the kernel parameter acpi=noirq to the kernel
command line to prevent the Linux kernel from using the I/O APIC interrupt controllers.
A fix for this would be available in a future BIOS updates for SLES 11.
Issue 3
Description: On installing SLES 11 SP1, if the login Window is not gnome, reboot the system to restore
gnome as the Window manager
Open Issues and Resolutions for VMware ESX 4.0 Operating System
Issue 1
Description: If you choose to install VMware ESX 4.x operating system, the Dell Utility Partition is deleted
during the operating system installation.
Issue 2
Description: While installing ESXi flash version (using recovery media), RAID virtual disks cannot be
created on the vFlash device. Virtual disks can be created only on hard drives.