Red Hat Linux 6.1 Bug Fix
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Package e2fsprogs

Synopsis new e2fsprogs packages available

Bug Fix ID RHEA-1999:047-01

Issue Date 1999-10-28

Updated On 1999-10-28

Keywords e2fsprogs progress bar signal 10 SIGUSR1



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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