RHBA-2005:419 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Hardware Certification Suite packages that fix various bugs are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Description

The Hardware Certification Suite is a set of tests and tools used to
certify hardware systems for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Recent feedback from partners and Red Hat developers uncovered various bugs
that are addressed in this update.

Updating the Hardware Certification Suite from the gold version is not
required to achieve hardware certification. However, this update does
address bugs that previously required workarounds.

All users of the Hardware Certification Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 should upgrade to these updated packages which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 s390x
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 s390
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 ppc
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 ia64
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 113441 - LTC5723 - Apachebench run required for RHR testing times out.
• BZ - 114234 - CORE test fails on an IPF box with >24 GB of RAM
• BZ - 141575 - USB test complaining about USB hub
• BZ - 142907 - Enh: allow discovery tool (USB specifically) to specify 'legacyfree'
• BZ - 143739 - LTC13220-ApacheBench failed doing RHR2 on RHEL4 RC2
• BZ - 145570 - NETWORK test failed (run without using iSPEC)
• BZ - 145782 - Network test fails when running through ispec and manually
• BZ - 146510 - broken pipe error during network test
• BZ - 146826 - ab command used in NETWORK test timed out in fast network
• BZ - 147807 - rhr2 network tests fail with "connection reset by peer " while doing ab (ApacheBench) through ssh
• BZ - 148981 - NETWORK tests reporting an ERROR
• BZ - 156616 - INFO test fails with -hugemem kernel

CVEs

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References

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