RHBA-2007:0217 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated nfs-utils-lib packages that fix a bug in 64-bit architectures
are now available.

Description

nfs-utils-lib provides support libraries needed by the commands and daemons
in the nfs-utils package.

When attempting to mount an NFS filesystem using kerberos security
(sec=krb5 or sec=krb5i), 64-bit architectures would often fail to mount,
and gssd would log an error similar to the one below:

WARNING: can't create rpc_clnt for server host.foo.redhat.com for user with
uid 0

The error was due to a mismatch in struct element sizes between the header
files included in this package and those in the glibc package.

Users, particularly those on 64-bit architectures, should apply this
update which resolves this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. 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 Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 228893 - RPC clnt_create call on x86_64 passes back NULL pointer with error code of "Success"

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)