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

RHBA-2013:1349 - am-utils bug fix update

Synopsis

am-utils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The am-utils packages provide the BSD automounter, Amd, which maintains a cache of mounted file systems. File systems are mounted when they are first referenced by a user, and unmounted after a period of inactivity.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the BSD automounter ignored the NFS "noacl" mount option, which disables ACL (Access Control List) support on NFS shares. Local file systems such as ext3 do not have ACLs enabled unless the "acl" mount option is supplied. An attempt to use the setfacl utility or another ACL operation on a share that had "noacl" specified was supposed to result in an "Operation not supported" error, but it did not. With this update, a backported patch has been provided and the "noacl" option is supported as expected. (BZ#836359)

  • When using an autofs multi-level mount map amd failed to umount NFS leaf mounts causing shutdown to terminate unexpectedly. This was caused by the background umount of NFS mounts at the leaf of the tree not finishing before the autofs file system mounts above were attempted. As a consequence, the system became unresponsive during shutdown. With this update, a patch has been provided to fix this bug and the system no longer becomes unresponsive in this scenario. (BZ#862283)

Users of am-utils 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

  • am-utils-6.1.5-7.el5.s390x.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-7.el5.ppc.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-7.el5.ia64.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-7.el5.src.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-7.el5.i386.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-7.el5.i386.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-7.el5.s390x.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-7.el5.ia64.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-7.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information