- Issued:
- 2009-01-20
- Updated:
- 2009-01-20
RHBA-2009:0147 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
pfmon bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated pfmon package that fixes a bug is now available.
Description
pfmon is performance monitoring tool. It uses the Performance Monitor Unit
(PMU) and can monitor standalone programs or an entire system on both
Uniprocessor and Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) Linux systems.
This update fixes the following bug:
- changes in the kernel-side interface caused pfmon to, sometimes, fail
with a Segmentation fault error if run with the "--system-wide" option.
This update improves pfmon's compatibility with the perfmon kernel
interface which corrects this error. Running pfmon with the "--system-wide"
option now behaves as expected and no longer segfaults.
Users of pfmon are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.
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
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 437942 - "pfmon -t 20 --system-wide" cause segment fault
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 9d5c9e5bc2fcc283ee59559165135afe3bd06f01fa6811c66221b3aa5c4bcaad |
x86_64 | |
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e543df7ffb3a4948bf57253471fd45628edf46e4329a183dc22f0d1847c8fa76 |
ia64 | |
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 396e06ffe2b30f11ebb3383f111723b07ffbf61d34b5ffc27acb254a6a1bf13f |
i386 | |
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: f6a04b14604ebaf00a4ed184d9bd9a191c516a0a31d2d7ce062a2e84afffa547 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 9d5c9e5bc2fcc283ee59559165135afe3bd06f01fa6811c66221b3aa5c4bcaad |
x86_64 | |
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e543df7ffb3a4948bf57253471fd45628edf46e4329a183dc22f0d1847c8fa76 |
i386 | |
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: f6a04b14604ebaf00a4ed184d9bd9a191c516a0a31d2d7ce062a2e84afffa547 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 9d5c9e5bc2fcc283ee59559165135afe3bd06f01fa6811c66221b3aa5c4bcaad |
x86_64 | |
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e543df7ffb3a4948bf57253471fd45628edf46e4329a183dc22f0d1847c8fa76 |
i386 | |
pfmon-3.2-0.060926.5.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: f6a04b14604ebaf00a4ed184d9bd9a191c516a0a31d2d7ce062a2e84afffa547 |
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