RHBA-2009:0127 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated kudzu packages that fix several bugs and add an enhancement are now
available.

Description

Kudzu is a hardware-probing tool that runs while the system boots to
determine what hardware has been added or removed from the system.

These updated kudzu packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• in the presence of wireless devices, kudzu improperly wrote a network

configuration file which would start on boot. However, this network
configuration file would always fail due to missing configuration for
network and/or encryption keys. With these updated packages, kudzu writes a
configuration that does not start on boot so that this information can be
added later.

• the management module for NetXen Gigabit Ethernet was incorrectly

identified as a network device. In these updated packages, it is classified
as a bridge, and it is correctly no longer shown as a usable device.

• on mainframe platforms, the network configuration was removed if devices

were set to "offline" in a z/VM virtualized environment. With these updated
packages, kudzu leaves the configuration alone, as expected.

• systems with USB CDC ethernet devices caused Anaconda to crash when it

was attempting to install the system. This no longer occurs with these
updated packages.

• in the presence of wireless devices that have a wmaster0 network

interface, kudzu would improperly write a network configuration file. With
these updated packages, kudzu properly ignores them.

In addition, these updated kudzu packages provide an enhancement in the way
of upport for virtio devices, which allows installing Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 into a KVM virtio guest image.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated kudzu packages, which resolve
these issues and add this enhancement.

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/docs/DOC-11259

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 - 472441 - Anaconda sets up wireless device ifcfg file to start on boot, even though I did not tell it to

CVEs

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References

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