Bug 150338

Summary:	/etc/init.d/microcode_ctl has bad arguments to microcode_ctl
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Will Woods <wwoods>
Component:	kernel-utils	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	3.0	CC:	pfrields
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Description Will Woods 2005-03-04 18:20:38 UTC

using the RHEL3-U5-re0303.0 tree (AS), at boot microcode_ctl complains about an
unknown -i flag. 

# rpm -q kernel-utils
kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.10
# diff -u microcode_ctl.orig microcode_ctl
--- microcode_ctl.orig  2005-02-25 15:46:37.000000000 -0500
+++ microcode_ctl       2005-03-04 12:47:57.000000000 -0500
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # ARGUMENTS            the argument we're going to call PROGRAM with

 DEVICE=/dev/cpu/0/microcode
-ARGUMENTS=-Qui
+ARGUMENTS=-Qu
 RETVAL=0
 PROGRAM=/sbin/microcode_ctl

Comment 1 Will Woods 2005-03-08 22:50:41 UTC

I should have been more clear, sorry: it complains about an unknown -i flag, and
*fails to run*. Error message:

[root@dhcp59-144 root]# /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl start
Applying Intel IA32 Microcode update: /sbin/microcode_ctl: invalid option -- i

This program is for updating the microcode on Intel processors
belonging to the IA32 family - PentiumPro upwards (x86_64 included).
It depends on the Linux kernel microcode driver.

Usage: /sbin/microcode_ctl [-h] [-u] [-q] [-Q] [-f microcode]

  -h    this usage message
  -q    run silently when successful
  -Q    run silently even on failure
  -u    upload microcode (default filename:"/etc/firmware/microcode.dat"
  -f    upload microcode from named Intel formatted file

                                                           [FAILED]

Comment 2 Will Woods 2005-04-07 22:05:55 UTC

This is fixed in the U5 Beta (kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.11).

Comment 3 Dennis Gregorovic 2005-05-19 17:28:18 UTC

An advisory 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-2005-228.html