RHBA-2007:0784 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated udev packages which fix several bugs are now available.

Description

The udev package implements a dynamic device directory providing only the
devices present on the system. This dynamic directory runs in user-space,
dynamically creates and removes devices, provides consistent naming and
a user-space API. udev replaces devfs in order to provide greater hot plug
functionality.

These updated packages include the following bug fixes:

• scsi_id is no longer sensitive to tab characters in the configuration

file. This prevents false error messages appearing at boot time.

• Fixed a bug causing xpram to appear only as slram. This package adds a

symlink from the slram device to xpram.

• On systems with 65 or more scsi drives, an error occurred causing

/dev/sdbm to not be created. The symlinks for /dev/sdbm are now created
correctly, resolving this issue.

All users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these
issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

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 - 205563 - xpram is recognized as /dev/slram instead of /dev/xpram
• BZ - 229432 - scsi_id is sensitive to tab characters in /etc/scsi_id.config file

CVEs

(none)

References

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