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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2013:0384 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2013-02-20
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0384 - Bug Fix Advisory

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Synopsis

powerpc-utils bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

Updated powerpc-utils packages that fix multiple bugs and add various
enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The powerpc-utils packages provide various utilities for the PowerPC platform.

The powerpc-utils packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.2.13, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version,
including support for physical Ethernet devices. The snap and hvcsadmin scripts
now use the "use strict" construct to prevent a Perl interpreter from allowing
usage of unsafe constructs, such as symbolic references, undeclared variables
and using strings without quotation marks. The snap script now also enables to
add a hostname and timestamp to its output file name by specifying the "-t"
option. (BZ#822656)

Additionally, this update fixes the following bugs:

  • The bootlist command is used to read and modify the bootlist in NVRAM so that

a system can boot from the correct device. Previously, when using a multipath
device as a boot device, the bootlist command used its Linux logical name.
However, Open Firmware, which is used on IBM POWER systems, is unable to parse
Linux logical names. Therefore booting from a multipath device on IBM POWER
systems failed. This update modifies the bootlist script so that bootlist now
supports multipath devices as a parameter. The script converts Linux logical
names of multipath devices to the path names that are parsable by Open Firmware.
Booting from a multipath device on IBM POWER systems now succeeds as expected.
(BZ#739699)

  • Previously, the "hvcsadmin -status" command did not provide any output if no

IBM hypervisor virtual console server (hvcs) adapters were found on the system.
This update corrects the hvcsadmin script so that when executing the "hvcsadmin

  • status" command, the user can now see a message indicating that no hvcs

adapters were found. (BZ#857841)

  • The lsdevinfo script did not previously take into consideration the "status"

attribute for Ethernet devices. This attribute is essential for the End-to-End
Virtual Device View feature so the feature did not work without it. This update
modifies lsdevinfo so the script now also checks the status of Ethernet devices
and sets the status attribute to 1. The End-to-End Virtual Device View feature
now works as expected. (BZ#870212)

All users of powerpc-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 for Power, big endian 6 ppc64

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
powerpc-utils-1.2.13-2.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 160527885612e97653066704cf60c3ee58b0bf1e9870879de5573dc5a4b597ce
ppc64
powerpc-utils-1.2.13-2.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 5945498182af38743fd8cd0c781093f9b5e8aba2be2553b196d8fc64cb9006ad
powerpc-utils-debuginfo-1.2.13-2.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: eeb37c95f24aafd730b84669e7de421582d0d8ff3ed83ea1f6574021aa4fc3b4

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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