Synopsis

crash bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated crash packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.

Description

The crash packages contain a self-contained utility that can be used to
investigate live systems and kernel core dumps created by the netdump, diskdump,
and kdump utilities.

This update fixes the following bug:

• The Xen dom0 dump files created with the "makedumpfile -d1" command on very
  large systems could create an ELF vmcore that the crash utility incorrectly
  determined to be an old-style netdump vmcore. Consequently, the crash session
  failed during initialization with the error message "crash: cannot read xen
  kdump p2m mfn page". With this update, the code has been fixed and the crash
  utility now properly starts in the described scenario. (BZ#883727)
  

Users of crash are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix 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/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 Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 ia64
• 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 IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.9 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 i386

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
x86_64
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 7b6a94b451afea924ebc0a8d2e32d11069ed8b40e867fb23e5973aa88a74b75d
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.9

SRPM
x86_64
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 7b6a94b451afea924ebc0a8d2e32d11069ed8b40e867fb23e5973aa88a74b75d
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 7b6a94b451afea924ebc0a8d2e32d11069ed8b40e867fb23e5973aa88a74b75d
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282
x86_64
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 7b6a94b451afea924ebc0a8d2e32d11069ed8b40e867fb23e5973aa88a74b75d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
x86_64
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 7b6a94b451afea924ebc0a8d2e32d11069ed8b40e867fb23e5973aa88a74b75d
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9

SRPM
x86_64
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 7b6a94b451afea924ebc0a8d2e32d11069ed8b40e867fb23e5973aa88a74b75d
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9

SRPM
x86_64
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 7b6a94b451afea924ebc0a8d2e32d11069ed8b40e867fb23e5973aa88a74b75d
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 55a0d74ef1ec63569949b6075b90973989fff48d95007a77453e8856b722d282