Issued:

2013-01-07

Updated:

2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0070 - system-config-lvm bug fix update

Synopsis

system-config-lvm bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated system-config-lvm package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

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

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The system-config-lvm utility did not start correctly when there were too many existing LVs and returned a traceback. This was due to a bug in the best_fit function, which tried to fit all existing LVs into the display area. This update modifies the underlying source code to make the system-config-lvm utility fully functional even when there are more then 350 LVs existing on the system. (BZ#834231)

• Initializing a disk via the system-config-lvm utility with an EFI GPT partition table did not work correctly because the fdisk utility, which is used by system-config-lvm to manipulate disk partition tables, does not support EFI GPT partition tables. With this update, attempting to initialize a disk using an EFI GPT partition table returns an informative error message. Support for EFI GPT partition tables was not added. (BZ#700253)

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 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

• system-config-lvm-1.1.5-13.el5.noarch.rpm
• system-config-lvm-1.1.5-13.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 700253

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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