Issued:

2013-01-07

Updated:

2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0058 - systemtap bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

systemtap bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated systemtap packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

SystemTap is a tracing and probing tool to analyze and monitor activities of the operating system, including the kernel. It provides a wide range of filtering and analysis options.

The systemtap packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#751479)

This update fixes also the following bug:

• Prior to this update, updating the systemtap package on client machines could fail because the systemap-testsuite is not designed for these machines. To work around this problem, remove the systemtap-testsuite subpackage before upgrading the systemtap package on client machines. (BZ#843392)

All users of systemtap are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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

Updated Packages

• systemtap-testsuite-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-1.8-6.el5.src.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.8-6.el5.s390.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.8-6.el5.s390.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.8-6.el5.s390.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm
• systemtap-devel-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-initscript-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-debuginfo-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-runtime-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-server-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-sdt-devel-1.8-6.el5.ppc64.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.8-6.el5.i386.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.8-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
• systemtap-testsuite-1.8-6.el5.s390x.rpm
• systemtap-client-1.8-6.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 559603
• This content is not included.BZ - 565868
• This content is not included.BZ - 859902

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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