RHBA-2014:1460 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated hal packages that fix two bugs and add one enhancement are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The hal packages provide the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) daemon. HAL
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:

• Prior to this update, the HAL daemon did not properly handle the hot plug

addition and removal events. Consequently, the HAL daemon terminated
unexpectedly with a segmentation fault during device probing. With this update,
hot plug events are properly handled and the HAL daemon no longer crashes in the
aforementioned scenario. (BZ#736415)

• Prior to this update, the /usr/libexec/hald-probe-smbios script, as well as

certain other hald-probe scripts, terminated unexpectedly after they were
manually started. This bug has been fixed and the aforementioned scripts can be
started manually without complications. (BZ#755209)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, the HAL daemon did not recognize touchscreen monitors correctly.

Consequently, these monitors were not added to the list of hot plugged devices
in
the Xorg window system. Support for touchscreen devices has been added to HAL
and these devices are now recognized correctly. (BZ#1076664)

Users of hal are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these
bugs and add this enhancement.

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/articles/11258

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 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 IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• 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 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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