Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0773 - parted bug fix update

Synopsis

parted bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated parted packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The parted packages allow you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard disk partitions. The parted program can be used for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, editing partitions on a mpath device udev could, under certain circumstances, interfere with re-reading the partition table. This update adds the dm_udev_wait option so that udev now correctly synchronizes. (BZ#698121, BZ#751164)

  • Prior to this update, the libparted partition_duplicate() function did not correctly copy all GPT partition flags. This update modifies the underlying code so that all flags are correctly copied and adds a test to ensure correct operation. (BZ#750395)

All parted users 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258/

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • parted-debuginfo-2.1-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • parted-devel-2.1-18.el6.ppc.rpm
  • parted-2.1-18.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • parted-2.1-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • parted-2.1-18.el6.s390x.rpm
  • parted-debuginfo-2.1-18.el6.ppc.rpm
  • parted-debuginfo-2.1-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • parted-2.1-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • parted-devel-2.1-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • parted-debuginfo-2.1-18.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • parted-devel-2.1-18.el6.s390.rpm
  • parted-2.1-18.el6.ppc.rpm
  • parted-debuginfo-2.1-18.el6.s390.rpm
  • parted-2.1-18.el6.s390.rpm
  • parted-devel-2.1-18.el6.s390x.rpm
  • parted-debuginfo-2.1-18.el6.s390x.rpm
  • parted-2.1-18.el6.src.rpm
  • parted-devel-2.1-18.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • parted-devel-2.1-18.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information