Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1499 - freeipmi bug fix update

Synopsis

freeipmi bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated freeipmi packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The FreeIPMI project provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and "System Management Software" (in-band) based on the Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification.

These updated freeipmi packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the "ipmi-sel" tool did not properly initialize itself and crashed when reading an empty SEL (System Event Log). With this update, ipmi-sel initialization is fixed and the tool no longer crashes when reading an empty SEL. (BZ#439411)

• Prior to this update, the "freeipmi-bmc-watchdog" service start did not expect that a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) watchdog timer could already be running and did not reset the timer. In addition, the service stop did not stop the BMC watchdog timer. This could result in a watchdog timer resetting, or shutting down, the machine. With this update, "service freeipmi-bmc-watchdog start" resets any previously started BMC watchdog timer and "service freeipmi-bmc-watchdog stop" correctly stops the timer. As a result the machine boots up normally. (BZ#639850)

All users of freeipmi are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

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

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• freeipmi-bmc-watchdog-0.5.1-7.el5.ia64.rpm
• freeipmi-0.5.1-7.el5.i386.rpm
• freeipmi-ipmidetectd-0.5.1-7.el5.i386.rpm
• freeipmi-devel-0.5.1-7.el5.ia64.rpm
• freeipmi-devel-0.5.1-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
• freeipmi-ipmidetectd-0.5.1-7.el5.ia64.rpm
• freeipmi-bmc-watchdog-0.5.1-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
• freeipmi-ipmidetectd-0.5.1-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
• freeipmi-0.5.1-7.el5.ia64.rpm
• freeipmi-bmc-watchdog-0.5.1-7.el5.i386.rpm
• freeipmi-devel-0.5.1-7.el5.i386.rpm
• freeipmi-0.5.1-7.el5.src.rpm
• freeipmi-0.5.1-7.el5.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 439411
• This content is not included.BZ - 639850

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/.
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