Enhancement Advisory New package edac-utils

Advisory: RHEA-2007:0742-6
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2007-11-15
Last updated on: 2007-11-15
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

A new package, edac-utils, is now available. This package improves
user-access to EDAC information,

The edac-utils package is a user-space package for supporting Error
Detection And Correction (EDAC) kernel functionality. It contains scripts
and applications which provide easier access to past EDAC events and alerts
regarding correctable ECC errors in memory modules.

EDAC is the current set of drivers in the Linux kernel that handle
detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets
on i386 and x86_64 architectures. This userspace component consists
of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels
are loaded at system startup. EDAC also contains a library and utility
for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.

All users of systems with EDAC enabled should install this newly-released
package, which adds these enhancements.


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 Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    6314551d87a18475524ff612e291c14a
 
IA-32:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    255ae520dba1aa2e3840339051a0758d
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    76660a9173ff88df28d9af2260238aa3
 
x86_64:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    79316fb2322f3b09e9f0affcfefcb6cb
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    1cc55f8e0aafeb86ec290e23ad8b90a1
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    6314551d87a18475524ff612e291c14a
 
IA-32:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    255ae520dba1aa2e3840339051a0758d
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    76660a9173ff88df28d9af2260238aa3
 
x86_64:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    79316fb2322f3b09e9f0affcfefcb6cb
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    1cc55f8e0aafeb86ec290e23ad8b90a1
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    6314551d87a18475524ff612e291c14a
 
IA-32:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    255ae520dba1aa2e3840339051a0758d
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    76660a9173ff88df28d9af2260238aa3
 
x86_64:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    79316fb2322f3b09e9f0affcfefcb6cb
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    1cc55f8e0aafeb86ec290e23ad8b90a1
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    6314551d87a18475524ff612e291c14a
 
IA-32:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    255ae520dba1aa2e3840339051a0758d
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    76660a9173ff88df28d9af2260238aa3
 
x86_64:
edac-utils-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    79316fb2322f3b09e9f0affcfefcb6cb
edac-utils-devel-0.9-7_el4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0757
    1cc55f8e0aafeb86ec290e23ad8b90a1
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

248610 - [RHEL4.6] Include edac-utils package



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