Issued:
2012-09-17
Updated:
2012-09-17

RHBA-2012:1272 - kexec-tools bug fix update

Synopsis

kexec-tools bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated kexec-tools packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The kexec fastboot mechanism allows booting a Linux kernel from the context of an already running kernel. The kexec-tools package provides the /sbin/kexec binary and ancillary utilities that form the user-space component of the kernel's kexec feature.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • When one interface was used for a iSCSI boot environment while is other was used by kdump with the "net" option on, the ifconfig utility caused an error. Consequently, vmcore was not collected in a dump server that stores vmcore specified in the kdump.conf file. This bug has been fixed and a memory dump capture now succeeds by kdump in an iSCSI boot environment. (BZ#822617)

Users of kexec-tools are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • kexec-tools-debuginfo-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.ppc64.rpm
  • kexec-tools-debuginfo-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.src.rpm
  • kexec-tools-debuginfo-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.ppc64.rpm
  • kexec-tools-debuginfo-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
  • kexec-tools-debuginfo-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information