Issued:
2013-09-30
Updated:
2013-09-30

RHBA-2013:1338 - procps bug fix update

Synopsis

procps bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated procps packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The procps packages contain a set of system utilities that provide system information. The procps packages include the following utilities: ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch, and pwdx.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • In some cases, for example, with VMware ESX guests and C-states/CPU switched off, the sum of idle and non-idle ticks returned by the kernel might have been zero. Consequently, this could have caused arithmetic exceptions. With this update, the zero sum is evaluated as if there were idle cycles, and the arithmetic exceptions no longer appear. (BZ#785169)

  • Previously, there was a misleading description of the SWAP field in the "top" tool. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 kernel does not export the VmSwap field in the /proc/#PID/status file, and therefore it was not possible to get the size of the swapped out portion of the task's address space. In the case of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the SWAP field displayed by the "top" tool represented the non-resident portion of the task's address space instead. With this update, the SWAP description has been changed from "Swapped size" to "Non-resident size." (BZ#869140)

Users of procps are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix 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/site/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

  • procps-debuginfo-3.2.7-26.el5.i386.rpm
  • procps-3.2.7-26.el5.i386.rpm
  • procps-debuginfo-3.2.7-26.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • procps-3.2.7-26.el5.s390x.rpm
  • procps-3.2.7-26.el5.src.rpm
  • procps-debuginfo-3.2.7-26.el5.ppc.rpm
  • procps-3.2.7-26.el5.ppc.rpm
  • procps-3.2.7-26.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • procps-debuginfo-3.2.7-26.el5.ia64.rpm
  • procps-3.2.7-26.el5.ia64.rpm
  • procps-debuginfo-3.2.7-26.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • procps-3.2.7-26.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • procps-debuginfo-3.2.7-26.el5.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information