RHBA-2008:0457 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated libnl packages are now available that fix an 'anaconda: unaligned
access' warning during installation on the Itanium architecture.

Description

The libnl package contains a convenience library to simplify using the
Linux kernel netlink sockets interface for network manipulation.

Due to alignment issues in kernel netlink messages, log messages may
indicate anaconda performing unaligned accesses during installation on the
Itanium architecture. The actual unaligned access warning was caused by
libnl; this update suppresses those warnings.

Users of libnl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve this issue.

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 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 434826 - unaligned access warnings during install from libnl

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)