- Issued:
- 2008-07-24
- Updated:
- 2008-07-24
RHBA-2008:0748 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
pfmon bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated pfmon package that fixes a bug is now available.
Description
The pfmon package contains pfmon, a tool to monitor performance using the
Performance Monitor Unit (PMU). Pfmon can monitor standalone programs, or
the entire system on both UP and SMP Linux systems.
Performance monitoring support for the Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor 9000
Sequence on Itanium architectures differs from previous processors. This
may have resulted in certain "pfmon" commands causing a segmentation fault.
In this updated package, pfmon has been rebuilt against the current libpfm
libraries, that contain support for the Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor 9000
Sequence monitoring hardware.
Users of pfmon are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.
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 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
pfmon-3.0-12.src.rpm | SHA-256: 862114a4417a2acb70970871e13d0c2c3174f8e3944fab2493c332d4b0b75512 |
ia64 | |
pfmon-3.0-12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 5f5d343924d98ec6cbd8f61100aa09595062832e74562d8406eafbc404477f29 |
pfmon-3.0-12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 5f5d343924d98ec6cbd8f61100aa09595062832e74562d8406eafbc404477f29 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
pfmon-3.0-12.src.rpm | SHA-256: 862114a4417a2acb70970871e13d0c2c3174f8e3944fab2493c332d4b0b75512 |
ia64 | |
pfmon-3.0-12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 5f5d343924d98ec6cbd8f61100aa09595062832e74562d8406eafbc404477f29 |
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