Bug Fix Advisory sos bug fix and enhancement update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0639-3
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-09-02
Last updated on: 2008-09-02
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2.z server)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated sos package that fixes various bugs and adds an enhancement is
now available.

SOS is a set of tools that gather information about a system's hardware and
current configuration. This information can then be used for diagnostic
purposes and debugging.

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

* a bug in the "hardware" plug-in caused the "[[:alpha:]]" regular
expression to only filter "a", "l", "p", "h", and ":" characters, instead
of the entire alphabet.

* the "filesys" plug-in did not capture all ext3 file system information.
In this updated package, the output of the "dumpe2fs" command is included.

* if a RAID was not present, sosreport failed to generate the output of the
"fdisk -l" command. In this updated package, the output from the "fdisk -l"
command is generated, even if a RAID is not present.

As well, an "emc" plug-in has been added to support gathering data from EMC
storage systems, such as the EMC CLARiiON and EMC Symmetrix systems.

Users of sos are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves
these issues and adds this enhancement.


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 (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    3f540311db3ce911700405b2358178cb
 
IA-32:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
IA-64:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
PPC:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
s390x:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
x86_64:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    3f540311db3ce911700405b2358178cb
 
IA-32:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
x86_64:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.2.z server)

SRPMS:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2009:0461
    3f540311db3ce911700405b2358178cb
 
IA-32:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm     a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
IA-64:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm     a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
PPC:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm     a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
s390x:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm     a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
x86_64:
sos-1.7-9.2.el5_2.2.noarch.rpm     a21531f3e14b036dd0bbf22762003b2f
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

455720 - regular expression error within hardware plugin
455721 - [EMC 5.2.z feat] Add support for EMC plugins
455724 - SOS does not collect ext3 filesystem information.
455725 - sosreport fails to generate fdisk -l



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