RHBA-2014:0768 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated edac-utils package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) is the current set of drivers in the Linux
kernel that handles detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most
chipsets on the 32-bit x86, AMD64, and Intel 64 architectures. The user-space
component consists of an init script which ensures that EDAC drivers and DIMM
labels are loaded at system startup, as well as a library and utility for
reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the exit status of the edac-utils package init script was not set

correctly. As a consequence, running the 'service edac status' command returned
exit status 0, which was not expected behavior because no programs were running
after executing the 'service edac start' command. With this update, the returned
exit status has been changed to 3 in the described situation. (BZ#679812)

Users of edac-utils 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 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 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 Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 679812 - initscript's status action should return 3

CVEs

(none)

References

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