Issued:

2013-11-29

Updated:

2013-11-29

RHBA-2013:1775 - grub bug fix update

Synopsis

grub bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated grub packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The GRUB utility is responsible for booting the operating system kernel.

This update fixes the following bug:

• A regular expression in the grub-install program could not match multipath devices when the "user_friendly_name" option was set to "no". As a consequence, the user was not able to install the GRUB utility on a specified device. To fix this bug, the regular expression has been updated to match the requested device names. As a result, GRUB now installs successfully. (BZ#1034595)

Users of grub are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix 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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• grub-0.97-13.11.el5_10.1.src.rpm
• grub-0.97-13.11.el5_10.1.x86_64.rpm
• grub-0.97-13.11.el5_10.1.i386.rpm
• grub-debuginfo-0.97-13.11.el5_10.1.x86_64.rpm
• grub-debuginfo-0.97-13.11.el5_10.1.i386.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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