acpid bug fix update

Advisory:	RHBA-2009:1403-1
Type:	Bug Fix Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2009-09-02
Last updated on:	2009-09-02
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
OVAL:	N/A

Details

An updated acpid package that fixes a bug is now available.

acpid is a daemon that dispatches ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface) events to user-space programs.

In some pre-release versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the Hardware
Abstraction Layer (HAL) daemon was initialized before the ACPI daemon.
Consequently, this resulted in the HAL daemon preventing the ACPI daemon
from accessing /proc/acpi/event. With this update, the acpid package has
been updated so the ACPI daemon now starts before the HAL daemon, which
resolves this issue. (BZ#503177)

Users should 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/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5.src.rpm	`a3cdd7d622c9dcc72ace1065d8a896eb`

IA-32:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5.i386.rpm	`b01011571ebeada8a58d31b7f1aca17d`

IA-64:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5.ia64.rpm	`c9a99a9d78c6e31c74c93212937797aa`

x86_64:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5.x86_64.rpm	`62f8d3ce1ffe68f39ef2a8fc4a198ea5`

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5.src.rpm	`a3cdd7d622c9dcc72ace1065d8a896eb`

IA-32:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5.i386.rpm	`b01011571ebeada8a58d31b7f1aca17d`

x86_64:
acpid-1.0.4-9.el5.x86_64.rpm	`62f8d3ce1ffe68f39ef2a8fc4a198ea5`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

503177 - acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event

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