Synopsis

smartmontools bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated smartmontools package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The smartmontools package contains two utilities, smartctl and smartd, that
enable the controlling and monitoring of Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) enabled storage systems. These utilities provide
advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

This updated smartmontools package fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, the format in which certain HP SAS (Serial Attached
  SCSI) drives returned S.M.A.R.T. data was not recognized by smartmontools and
  the following error message "scsi response fails sanity test" was logged. With
  this update, smartmontools now correctly recognizes the data and this error no
  longer occurs. (BZ#714888)
  

All users of smartmontools are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes this bug.

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 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 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 - 714888 - smartctl returns "scsi response fails sanity test" on HP SAS DG0146FARVU

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 52d6e073bd4a9c91e01d176d123d97215b49feed088089c00e766c7c1751c235
x86_64
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8c139a11bc2f550074718e8903d2fc9a1358d9f856bc9c094114c0bf4eb0d3ca
ia64
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 94772a7b06fdd364aada6d30fae979937d0f5e67abc492a7f13b01b66507895f
i386
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: e08c9f501d5dfa5f166ed83ca804767e6c093c8b20f0c72c4f639f3bb2169add

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 52d6e073bd4a9c91e01d176d123d97215b49feed088089c00e766c7c1751c235
x86_64
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8c139a11bc2f550074718e8903d2fc9a1358d9f856bc9c094114c0bf4eb0d3ca
i386
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: e08c9f501d5dfa5f166ed83ca804767e6c093c8b20f0c72c4f639f3bb2169add

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 52d6e073bd4a9c91e01d176d123d97215b49feed088089c00e766c7c1751c235
x86_64
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8c139a11bc2f550074718e8903d2fc9a1358d9f856bc9c094114c0bf4eb0d3ca
i386
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: e08c9f501d5dfa5f166ed83ca804767e6c093c8b20f0c72c4f639f3bb2169add

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 52d6e073bd4a9c91e01d176d123d97215b49feed088089c00e766c7c1751c235
ppc
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 2f115ae36899016d8288a364abc1032e2ff5ff6a9f715d7b2323d1faaff88700

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 52d6e073bd4a9c91e01d176d123d97215b49feed088089c00e766c7c1751c235
x86_64
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8c139a11bc2f550074718e8903d2fc9a1358d9f856bc9c094114c0bf4eb0d3ca
i386
smartmontools-5.38-3.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: e08c9f501d5dfa5f166ed83ca804767e6c093c8b20f0c72c4f639f3bb2169add