- Issued:
- 2009-09-02
- Updated:
- 2009-09-02
RHEA-2009:1284 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
New package: blktrace
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
A new package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Description
blktrace is a block layer IO tracing mechanism which provides detailed
information about request queue operations to user space.
This new package includes both blktrace, a utility which gathers event
traces from the kernel; and blkparse, a utility which formats trace data
collected by blktrace.
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/docs/DOC-11259
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 for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 498377 - blkiomon doesn't recognize --msg-queue-name cmd line option
- BZ - 498381 - unrecognized cmd line options in the man page of blkparse
- BZ - 498383 - man page of blkrawverify contains a different utility name in its SYNOPSIS section
- BZ - 498426 - btrecord doesn't recognize --max-pkts and --max-packets cmd line options
- BZ - 498891 - man page of btrace contains errors
- BZ - 498904 - typo errors in man pages
- BZ - 498915 - btt segfaults when analyzing an input file
- BZ - 498945 - btrace does not recognize "-n" and "-b" options
- BZ - 499373 - blkiomon prints "unaligned access" messages
- BZ - 499581 - blkrawverify exits with 0 even if files do not exist
- BZ - 500118 - blkparse exits with 0 even if trace files do not exist
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: df312bafc871cf0538c6c3671d085ed55fb1a6c676891e975ee568f6016fa4bf |
x86_64 | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e92721f1e42dca5c029fec139f19aeed3431194eca6f580457d445aaf580adc1 |
ia64 | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 875a21773285f9d7b65cdc35b85db1548632bfb4c57aedc7fad9969d71028293 |
i386 | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: ffa8d267d47f3d5b165bdf7d04c0f9f6c9648e90fe3dc470cc7327d55cebb740 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: df312bafc871cf0538c6c3671d085ed55fb1a6c676891e975ee568f6016fa4bf |
x86_64 | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e92721f1e42dca5c029fec139f19aeed3431194eca6f580457d445aaf580adc1 |
i386 | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: ffa8d267d47f3d5b165bdf7d04c0f9f6c9648e90fe3dc470cc7327d55cebb740 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: df312bafc871cf0538c6c3671d085ed55fb1a6c676891e975ee568f6016fa4bf |
s390x | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: aa544ebcda6bbf72790d1c83fa935ef0575348d3bce14a1a0c17f5938c8d49d5 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: df312bafc871cf0538c6c3671d085ed55fb1a6c676891e975ee568f6016fa4bf |
ppc | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 8ec37f79938af24c1ca5bef418a5f0939e7838d56fbce6b279c5d1ada32e64e2 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: df312bafc871cf0538c6c3671d085ed55fb1a6c676891e975ee568f6016fa4bf |
x86_64 | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e92721f1e42dca5c029fec139f19aeed3431194eca6f580457d445aaf580adc1 |
i386 | |
blktrace-1.0.0-6.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: ffa8d267d47f3d5b165bdf7d04c0f9f6c9648e90fe3dc470cc7327d55cebb740 |
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