Enhancement Advisory diskdumputils enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2006:0065-6
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2006-03-15
Last updated on: 2006-03-15
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated diskdumputils packages that add various enhancements are now available.

This package allows the swap partition to be used in lieu of a dedicated
dump partition. This simply requires that the administrator configure
the swap device as the DEVICE in /etc/sysconfig/diskdump.

Previously, the post-crash savecore operation re-formatted the dump
partition, destroying its contents. A new PRESERVEDUMP configuration
parameter has been added to /etc/sysconfig/diskdump that, when set to
PRESERVEDUMP=yes, prevents the re-formatting of the dump partition if the
savecore operation fails.

The DEVICE parameter in /etc/sysconfig/diskdump allows multiple devices to
be specified in a colon-separated list. These devices are now used in the
left-to-right order in which they are listed.

Swap partitions may not be registered as diskdump partitions because that
diskdump feature is not supported by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 kernel.

Users of diskdumputils should upgrade to these updated packages, which add
these enhancements.


Solution

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.

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 3)

SRPMS:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    6ded9eda7a2798d5746d7736f3b183f4
 
IA-32:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    7c02228bd1723b6ad1ecc86f718c5923
 
x86_64:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    cdf0a2439ecd2b49f6091db8887bf609
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3)

SRPMS:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    6ded9eda7a2798d5746d7736f3b183f4
 
IA-32:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    7c02228bd1723b6ad1ecc86f718c5923
 
IA-64:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    04a21fc3975d89df444b5e9142325bbd
 
x86_64:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    cdf0a2439ecd2b49f6091db8887bf609
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3)

SRPMS:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    6ded9eda7a2798d5746d7736f3b183f4
 
IA-32:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    7c02228bd1723b6ad1ecc86f718c5923
 
IA-64:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    04a21fc3975d89df444b5e9142325bbd
 
x86_64:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    cdf0a2439ecd2b49f6091db8887bf609
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3)

SRPMS:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    6ded9eda7a2798d5746d7736f3b183f4
 
IA-32:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    7c02228bd1723b6ad1ecc86f718c5923
 
IA-64:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    04a21fc3975d89df444b5e9142325bbd
 
x86_64:
diskdumputils-1.2.8-1.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHEA-2006:0445
    cdf0a2439ecd2b49f6091db8887bf609
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

162901 - FEAT:[RHEL3-U7] diskdumputils - preservation of dump partition
168351 - [RHEL3-U7] diskdump - Wrong drive use order when multiple drives are used



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