RHEA-2009:0197 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated system-config-kdump package that fixes a bug and adds various
enhancements is now available.

Description

system-config-kdump is a graphical tool for configuring kernel crash
dumping via kdump and kexec.

This updated system-config-kdump package provides fixes for a bug which
occurred whenever system-config-kdump modified the "kernel" entry in the
grub.conf configuration file. Previously, system-config-kdump modified the
grub entry for the current kernel, i.e. the kernel currently in use,
whether or not that was the kernel which was configured in grub.conf as the
default kernel. With this updated package, system-config-kdump will always
modify the grub entry for the default kernel, which is the one which will
be used following a reboot.

In addition, this updated package provides the following enhancements:

• system-config-kdump now shows the current kdump settings of the running

kernel.

• system-config-kdump now displays a field named "Current kdump memory",

which contains a count of the current memory used by the kernel for kdump.

• the "Enable kdump" check button reflects the default kernel settings:

when the kernel is set to use kdump, the button will be shown as "on".

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated system-config-kdump package,
which fixes this bug and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

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 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 Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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