Issued:

2010-01-05

Updated:

2010-01-05

RHBA-2010:0004 - acpid bug fix update

Synopsis

acpid bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated acpid package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) events to user-space programs.

This updated acpid package fixes the following bug:

• the acpid package that was included with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 update contained a package update script that returned a non-zero exit code when the the /var/log/acpid log file did not exist. However, if the acpid daemon had never been started on the system, and therefore /var/log/acpid did not exist, the faulty check caused the update process to fail, which could have resulted in two different acpid packages being installed on the same system and registered with the RPM database (rpmdb). This updated acpid package removes the spurious record from the rpmdb, thus resolving the problem. (BZ#548374)

All users of acpid are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
• acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.2.i386.rpm
• acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.2.src.rpm
• acpid-1.0.4-9.el5_4.2.ia64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 548374

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.