RHBA-2015:1430 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated edac-utils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The edac-utils packages contain Error Detection And Correction (EDAC), 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 and 64-bit
architectures. The user-space component consists of an init script which ensures
that EDAC drivers and Dual Inline Memory Module (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 libsysfs packages were not listed as a dependency for the

edac-utils packages. As a consequence, on systems where the libsysfs packages
were not installed independently, the edac-utils packages were not fully
functional due to the lack of libraries provided by libsysfs. This update adds
libsysfs to the list of dependencies for edac-utils. As a result, libsysfs can
be automatically installed together with edac-utils, thus providing all the
libsysfs libraries necessary for edac-utils to work properly on all systems.
(BZ#1200884)

Users of edac-utils 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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 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

CVEs

(none)

References

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