- Issued:
- 2005-09-28
- Updated:
- 2005-09-28
RHBA-2005:606 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
initscripts/hotplug bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
New initscripts and hotplug packages that fixes various bugs are now available.
Description
The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot
your Red Hat system, change runlevels, and shut the system down cleanly.
Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most
network interfaces.
Various bugs have been fixed in the initscripts and hotplug packages,
including:
- misuse of a grep command that caused interfaces to be wrongly
brought up by hotplug
- in some situations, a proper network configuration was not brought
up correctly on boot
- various memory misues in initlog have been corrected
- commented interface-specifc route files were handled incorrectly
- mkkerneldoth did not work correctly with some versions of sed
- LVM setup and fsck were not run correctly on network block devices
- a mistranslation caused extraneous error messages on boot
- IPSEC routes were not set correctly
In addition, this erratum adds the following features:
- support for alternate VLAN naming schemes
- automatically reboot when fsck calls for it
All users of initscripts and hotplug should upgrade to these updated
packages, which resolves these issues and adds 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.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 114548 - ifup-routes no longer allows comments in route definition files
- BZ - 146169 - ifup-ipsec doesn't set route with network-2-network config
- BZ - 148764 - [PATCH] Wrong handling of network attached block devices
- BZ - 153669 - initscripts ignore ONBOOT=no at system boot, when further variables are defined
- BZ - 159159 - /boot/kernel.h contains wrong #define's for athlon smp system
- BZ - 163535 - rc.sysinit tries to i18n a command name
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
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