RHBA-2013:0107 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated hal packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.

Description

The HAL daemon collects and maintains information about the hardware on the
system from several sources, and provides a live device list through D-BUS.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the HAL daemon sometimes identified a non-existent error when

running a new process and displayed the following warning:

Warning: Error while wite r->input () to stdin_v.

This bug has been fixed and the HAL daemon now works properly in the
described scenario. (BZ#704079)

• The previous version of the hal package did not provide a manual page for the

hal-device utility. This update adds the hal-device(1) manual page to this
package. (BZ#555303)

All users of hal are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 - 555303 - hal-device has no man-pages

CVEs

(none)

References

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