Bug 107943

Summary:	LTC5123 - nvsetenv command broken in RHEL3 GA
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Olof Johansson <olof>
Component:	ppc64-utils	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
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Description Olof Johansson 2003-10-24 19:39:22 UTC

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Description of problem:
Hardware Environment:
7042-270

Software Environment:
RHEL3 GA

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "nvsetenv"


Actual Results:
?root@milliways root?# nvsetenv
Warning: Bad magic number 1003
Warning: checksum error (f284) on nvram
Segmentation fault


Expected Results:
Should have printed all nvram variables and their settings.

Additional Information:
This worked with earlier versions of RHEL3. It also works from another distro
booted on the same system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above

Additional info:

Comment 1 Olof Johansson 2003-10-24 19:48:39 UTC

olof.com changed:

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        Owning Team|pSeries                     |Red Hat




------- Additional Comments From olof.com  2003-24-10 15:49 -------
Matt can reproduce at RedHat. Failure does not occurr with ppc64-utils-0.5. I'm
using 0.7-1 (GA version).

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2003-11-04 19:22:46 UTC

fixed in 0.7-2

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2004-01-05 16:07:43 UTC

------ Additional Comments From kaena.com  2004-01-05 10:15 -------
Please check to see if this bug has been fixed in RHEL Q1. Thanks.

Comment 4 Jay Turner 2004-01-16 17:41:26 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-321.html

Comment 5 IBM Bug Proxy 2004-01-20 16:45:55 UTC

----- Additional Comments From kaena.com  2004-01-20 11:34 -------
closing this as fixed in update #1, unless otherwise told.

Comment 6 IBM Bug Proxy 2004-04-08 02:25:49 UTC

----- Additional Comments From zhouwu.com  2004-04-07 22:27 -------
Verified on the 03/30 released RHEL3 update2 Beta. Fixed.