RHBA-2008:0565 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated OpenFabrics Alliance packages that fix various bugs are now available.

Description

The OpenFabrics Alliance Enterprise Distribution (OFED) is a collection of
Infiniband and iWARP hardware diagnostic utilities, the Infiniband fabric
management daemon, Infiniband/iWARP kernel module loader, and libraries and
development packages for writing applications that use Remote Direct Memory
Access (RDMA) technology. Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses the OFED software
stack as its complete stack for Infiniband/iWARP/RDMA hardware support.

These updated packages address the following bugs:

• the libsdp package in the 5.2 update was missing an epoch entry and did

not update the existing 5.1 libsdp package as a result. The missing entry
is now included within these packages, allowing for 5.1 libsdp packages to
be successfully updated.

• when upgrading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 to Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 5.2 via the yum repository, a circular obsoletes error would result
in the mstflint, perftest, and tvflash packages repeatedly replacing and
being replaced by the openib-mstflint, openib-perftest, and openib-tvflash
packages. This circular obsoletes problem is corrected iwith this update.

All Infiniband/iWARP hardware users are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages which correct 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 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.2 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.2 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.2 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 451637 - New libsdp missing Epoch info
• BZ - 451638 - circular obsoletes in RHEL Desktop Workstation v. 5 channel

CVEs

(none)

References

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