crash enhancement update

An updated crash package that adds support for multiple PT_LOAD segments
in ELF vmcore files is now available.

Currently the ELF vmcore file created by the netdump and diskdumputils
packages contains a single PT_LOAD segment that describes all of physical
memory as one object. When a dumping system contains non-existent holes
in physical memory, those ranges of non-existent memory are represented
by sparse file space in the vmcore file. However, if the system has
extremely large memory holes, the vmcore file size may exceed the
file-size limit of the underlying filesystem type.

To address this problem, the RHEL3-U6 diskdumputils package has been
updated (see errata RHBA-2005:576) to create vmcore files with multiple
PT_LOAD segments, creating a new segment when it encounters a memory hole
of 256 pages or more. Accordingly, the crash utility has been enhanced to
handle multiple PT_LOAD segments in ELF vmcore files.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated package.

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.