Issued:

2013-11-20

Updated:

2013-11-20

RHBA-2013:1656 - watchdog bug fix update

Synopsis

watchdog bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated watchdog package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The watchdog package provides a user-space application which can be configured to provide updates to a hardware or software watchdog timer via the Linux kernel's watchdog interface.

The watchdog package has been upgraded to upstream version 5.6, which provides one bug fix over the previous version. The previous version failed to reset the Ipmi Linux watchdog timer on a Sun Fire X4100 server. Consequently, the system started to reboot continuously if the watchdog daemon was started. A patch has been applied to address this bug, and resetting the watchdog timer now works as expected on Sun Fire X4100. (BZ#870217)

Users of watchdog are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• watchdog-debuginfo-5.6-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
• watchdog-debuginfo-5.6-2.el6.ppc64.rpm
• watchdog-debuginfo-5.6-2.el6.s390x.rpm
• watchdog-5.6-2.el6.i686.rpm
• watchdog-5.6-2.el6.src.rpm
• watchdog-5.6-2.el6.ppc64.rpm
• watchdog-5.6-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
• watchdog-debuginfo-5.6-2.el6.i686.rpm
• watchdog-5.6-2.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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