Issued:
2014-09-16
Updated:
2014-09-16

RHBA-2014:1199 - sysstat bug fix update

Synopsis

sysstat bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated sysstat packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The sysstat packages provide a set of utilities which enable system monitoring of disks, network, and other I/O activity.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the sysstat packages did not support dynamically attributed major device numbers. Consequently, devices with these numbers were not listed in sar reports under their real names. With this update, support for dynamically attributed major device numbers has been added to sysstat. As a result, all devices now appear with their correct names in sar reports. (BZ#804890, BZ#885571)

  • Previously, the "sar -dp" command did not translate device-mapper device names. As a consequence, block devices under device-mapper were listed as "nodev" instead of their proper names. The underlying source has been modified to fix this bug and the devices are now displayed with the proper names as expected. (BZ#837238)

Users of sysstat 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

  • sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.2-13.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • sysstat-7.0.2-13.el5.i386.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.2-13.el5.i386.rpm
  • sysstat-7.0.2-13.el5.ia64.rpm
  • sysstat-7.0.2-13.el5.s390x.rpm
  • sysstat-7.0.2-13.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.2-13.el5.ppc64.rpm
  • sysstat-7.0.2-13.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • sysstat-7.0.2-13.el5.src.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.2-13.el5.ia64.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.2-13.el5.s390x.rpm
  • sysstat-7.0.2-13.el5.ppc.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-7.0.2-13.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information