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

RHBA-2012:0960 - system-config-lvm bug fix update

Synopsis

system-config-lvm bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated system-config-lvm package that fixes multiple bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The system-config-lvm package contains a utility for configuring logical volumes using a graphical user interface.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • The system-config-lvm utility incorrectly displayed all LVM devices in the "Unitialized Entities" group. This could confuse users who could try to re-initialize logical volumes unnecessarily. This update modifies system-config-lvm to show LVM devices as "Unitialized Entities" only if the logical volumes really are uninitialized. (BZ#791153)

  • The system-config-lvm utility uses fdisk as a back end for partition operations. The fdisk utility does not support the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) GUID Partition Table (GPT), so an attempt to initialize a physical partition on EFI GPT fails. However, system-config-lvm previously did not handle this situation correctly and the operation failed without any error message. This update modifies the underlying code so that system-config-lvm now provides a valid error message in this situation. (BZ#708029)

  • The system-config-lvm utility did not properly handle physical partitions with names in the form of "*p[0-9]", for example, "loop0p0". Therefore, system-config-lvm terminated unexpectedly when attempting to initialize such a partition. This update modifies the underlying code so that system-config-lvm no longer crashes in this scenario. However, system-config-lvm still does not handle such partition names and such partitions cannot be initialized. (BZ#726830)

  • The system-config-lvm utility uses the dmsetup tool for obtaining information from Device Mapper Multipath. Output of dmsetup was designed to be parsed by scripts, however, with an update of device-mapper-multipath to version 1.02.74, this output was changed. As a consequence, system-config-lvm terminated unexpectedly with a traceback when used with Device-Mapper Multipath available on the system. This update modifies system-config-lvm to use a user-specified output which does not change across different versions. The system-config-lvm utility now works as expected. (BZ#815921)

All users of system-config-lvm are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.

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 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

  • system-config-lvm-1.1.12-12.el6.noarch.rpm
  • system-config-lvm-1.1.12-12.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information