Bug Fix Advisory traceroute bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0600-3
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-07-23
Last updated on: 2008-07-23
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux FasTrack (v. 5 client)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux FasTrack (v. 5 server)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated traceroute package that fixes various bugs is now available.

The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way
to a specified network (or Internet) host. Traceroute displays the IP
address and hostname (if possible) of the machines along the route taken
by the packets.

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

* a bug, which may have resulted in the "traceroute [hostname]" command
displaying multiple "unaligned access" warnings when run on Intel
Itanium-based systems, has been resolved.

* the traceroute spec file was missing the '"LDFLAGS=""' build option. This
resulted in an empty traceroute-debuginfo package, which was seen by
running the "rpm -ql traceroute-debuginfo" command. In this updated
package, '"LDFLAGS=""' has been added to the traceroute spec file, which
resolves this issue.

Users of traceroute are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.


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

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux FasTrack (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.src.rpm     ffcc458afb549e4cc32e5d9ba7a0866e
 
IA-32:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.i386.rpm     c00283b8a9d4e0bf90b031af0a068e8b
 
x86_64:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.x86_64.rpm     c60c7455522e4763164ad471d0bd3b06
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux FasTrack (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.src.rpm     ffcc458afb549e4cc32e5d9ba7a0866e
 
IA-32:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.i386.rpm     c00283b8a9d4e0bf90b031af0a068e8b
 
IA-64:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.ia64.rpm     c9c26b1a1a5f1a192bd4e94fe3ae9f95
 
PPC:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.ppc.rpm     51579bf6377c8ea9c76ed9bc50846483
 
s390x:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.s390x.rpm     f26c5a46d6243519a4b90ef08404bdcd
 
x86_64:
traceroute-2.0.1-5.el5.x86_64.rpm     c60c7455522e4763164ad471d0bd3b06
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

445571 - traceroute-debuginfo package is empty



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