RHBA-2011:1626 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated parted packages that fix three bugs and add one enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The parted packages allow you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy hard
disk partitions. The parted program can be used for creating space for new
operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, parted incorrectly calculated the position of the new

partition when partitions of 1 or smaller units (eg. 1GB, 0.5GB) were created.
As a result, only an extremely small partition was created. This update fixes
the snap problem for 1 unit and no longer allows defining units less than 1. The
value 0 is still allowed when specifying the start of the device. The next
smaller units should be used instead of a value smaller than 1. eg. Use 500MB
instead of 0.5GB. (BZ#665496)

• Prior to this update, a cylinder-head-sector (CHS) value was, under certain

circumstances, especially with factory partitioned USB drives, not found. As a
result, parted threw an assertion when attempting to guess the CHS used to
create a partition table, even though it was safe to continue without the CHS
information. This update no longer throws an assertion when it cannot guess the
CHS values used to create a partition table. (BZ#692562)

• Prior to this update, several tests of the parted test suite failed when

running as root on IBM System z and 64-bit PowerPCs. With this update, the tests
run as expected. (BZ#746098)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• GPT disklabels now support the legacy_boot flag to allow bootloaders such as

syslinux's hybrid gptmbr to be used on BIOS and EFI systems. It is set with the
set command in parted. (BZ#711148)

All parted users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add this enhancement.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259/

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 665496 - [6.0] parted command can't create a 1GB partition correctly.
• BZ - 692562 - Anaconda died after receiving signal 6.

CVEs

(none)

References

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