RHBA-2010:0593 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated udev packages that fix a bug are now available.

Description

The udev packages implement 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, providing greater hot plug functionality.

These updated packages fix the following bug:

• previously, cciss devices did not have an entry in the udev database. This was

caused by the fact that these devices do not provide information in the /sys
file system, making it hard to create persistent symbolic links in /dev/disk.
With this update, the scsi_id utility is used to query the ID of cciss devices,
so that udev can create the database entries as expected. (BZ#615270)

Users of udev are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve
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 the 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 - 615270 - cciss disk devices have empty block.device property in HAL

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)