Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1784 - smartmontools bug fix update

Synopsis

smartmontools bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated smartmontools package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The smartmontools package contains two utilities, smartctl and smartd, that enable the controlling and monitoring of Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) enabled storage systems. These utilities provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

This updated smartmontools package fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, the format in which certain HP SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives returned S.M.A.R.T. data was not recognized by smartmontools and the following error message "scsi response fails sanity test" was logged. With this update, smartmontools now correctly recognizes the data and this error no longer occurs. (BZ#714888)

All users of smartmontools are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

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

• smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.src.rpm
• smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
• smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.ppc.rpm
• smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.ia64.rpm
• smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.i386.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 714888

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.