Enhancement Advisory system-config-kdump bug fix and enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2007:0882-5
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2007-11-07
Last updated on: 2007-11-07
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated system-config-kdump package which fixes a bug and adds an
enhancement is now available.

system-config-kdump is a graphical tool for configuring kernel crash
dumping via kdump and kexec.

This updated package fixes the following issue:

* in the previous system-config-kdump package, running system-config-kdump
on a xen kernel resulted in a "Sorry, Xen kernels do not support kdump at
this time!" error. This update adds support for running
system-config-kdump on xen kernels.

This update adds the following enhancement:

* xen kernels running on systems with more than 4GB of memory
require kernel-PAE for correct kdump support, otherwise kdump will not
create a complete dump. Users are now warned if they require the
kernal-PAE package to create kernel dumps.

Users of system-config-kdump are advised to upgrade to this updated
package, which fixes this bug and adds this enhancement.


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 Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    b8d8201a7e2448f785582bb34ca5c096
 
IA-32:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    559adfc25b9ef782ae160529749cc44e
 
IA-64:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    559adfc25b9ef782ae160529749cc44e
 
PPC:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    559adfc25b9ef782ae160529749cc44e
 
x86_64:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    559adfc25b9ef782ae160529749cc44e
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    b8d8201a7e2448f785582bb34ca5c096
 
IA-32:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    559adfc25b9ef782ae160529749cc44e
 
x86_64:
system-config-kdump-1.0.12-1.el5.noarch.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0396
    559adfc25b9ef782ae160529749cc44e
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

243191 - Xen kdump function not enabled



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