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KernelCare / KVM crash on EL6

July 10, 2019 - TuxCare PR Team

The latest KernelCare patchset for EL6 distributions had a bug that triggered crashes KVM hosts in some of the configurations.

The patch was rolled back within ~50 minutes, and only a small number of customers were affected.

No customers on delayed feeds were affected:
No customers on ePortal were affected:

We are sorry about the issue. We are currently working on the fix for this patch.

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