RHBA-2011:0110 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated mkinitrd packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The mkinitrd utility creates file system images for use as initial ramdisk
(initrd) images.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, network devices could be set up more than once with iSCSI when the

system had two partitions on a single iscsi device. With this update, the
network is only configured once. This issue could be resolved thanks to the
patch contributed made by Thomas Chenault. (BZ#499781)

• Previously, the symlink /sbin/dmraid.static was missing when the kernel-debug

and kernel packages were installed. With this update, the installation of these
packages behaves as expected. (BZ#513961)

• Previously, virtual machines using iscsi could not boot correctly after

installation. With this update booting works correctly. (BZ#568325)

• Previously, the command "mkinitrd" failed due to a regression. As a result,

no initial RAM disk could be created. With this update, command "mkinitrd"
creates initial RAM disks without errors. (BZ#578236)

• Previously, mkinitrd did not support the option multipath-tools bindings_file.

This update does support this option (BZ#593050)

• Previously, the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Snap5 failed when

root was installed on iSCSI multipath'd LUN. This update installs the operating
system successfully with root (/) FS on an iSCSI multipath'd LUN. (BZ#664389)

All mkinitrd users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

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 - 499781 - Duplicate network startup in the init scripts during boot from iSCSI target
• BZ - 568325 - Cannot boot virtual machine with root partition on iscsi with virtio network
• BZ - 593050 - mkinitrd does not support multipath-tools bindings_file option
• BZ - 664389 - [NetApp 5.6 bug] RHEL 5.6 Snap5 installation fails with root on iSCSI multipath'd LUN

CVEs

(none)

References

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