RHBA-2006:0273 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated lmbench package that fixes a bug with large-memory systems is
available.

Description

lmbench is a series of micro benchmarks intended to measure basic
operating system and hardware system metrics. The benchmarks fall into
three general classes: bandwidth, latency, and "other".

A bug that could cause lat_mem_rd to segfault at the start of its testing
on machines with more than 2GB RAM has been fixed.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated lmbench package which resolves
this problem.

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 - 178887 - MEMORY2 test segfaults

CVEs

(none)

References

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