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

RHBA-2012:0803 - smartmontools bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

smartmontools bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated smartmontools packages that fix various bugs and adds multiple enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

The smartmontools package has been upgraded to version 5.42, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. This update also features improved support of SATA disks on 3ware 9750 RAID controllers, improved support of SSD devices, and a much larger database of supported devices. (BZ#697235, BZ#698317)

In addition, this updated package addresses the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, the format in which certain HP SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives returned SMART 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#784925)

All users of smartmontools are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

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 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 - 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

  • smartmontools-5.42-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • smartmontools-5.42-2.el6.src.rpm
  • smartmontools-5.42-2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • smartmontools-debuginfo-5.42-2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • smartmontools-debuginfo-5.42-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • smartmontools-5.42-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • smartmontools-debuginfo-5.42-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • smartmontools-debuginfo-5.42-2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • smartmontools-5.42-2.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information