1. Topic:
New e2fsprogs packages are available to fix a problem in the
e2fsprogs packages that shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.1.
2. Problem description:
When displaying the progress bar for a filesystem check, it was
possible for a SIGUSR1 to be sent to a e2fsck process that did
not yet have a signal handler enabled, causing fsck to prematurely
exit.
3. Bug IDs fixed: (see bugzilla for more information)
5987 6279 6327
4. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 6.1, Intel
5. Obsoleted by:
None
6. Conflicts with:
None
7. RPMs required:
Intel:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/i386/
e2fsprogs-1.17-1.i386.rpm
e2fsprogs-devel-1.17-1.i386.rpm
Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/SRPMS
e2fsprogs-1.17-1.src.rpm
8. Solution:
For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Uvh filename
where filename is the name of the RPM.
9. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
c561a73148092270d5ac11e725338d49 e2fsprogs-1.17-1.src.rpm
4f583f4b9b427fbc1b33f9db1334b4c5 e2fsprogs-1.17-1.i386.rpm
420cfa9238e2de27abe7d297b482b37e e2fsprogs-devel-1.17-1.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key
is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm --checksig
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
rpm --checksig --nogpg
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