Bug 465972
| Summary: | Update of iputils starts rdisc, breaking network connectivity | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | David Barnwell <david.barnwell> | |
| Component: | iputils | Assignee: | Jiri Skala <jskala> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto> | |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | medium | |||
| Version: | 4.6 | CC: | aglotov, azelinka, ddumas, dkovalsk, jturner, msusta, tao | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Patch | |
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | i386 | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 519124 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-05-18 20:15:39 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 519124 | |||
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Description
David Barnwell
2008-10-07 14:18:17 UTC
This also affects the following versions of the iputils RPM:
20020927-43.el5 (RHEL5)
20020927-11.30.5 (RHEL3)
root@server ~ # rpm -q iputils
iputils-20020927-11.30.5
root@server ~ # rpm -q --scripts iputils
postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
/sbin/chkconfig --add rdisc
preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
service rdisc stop >/dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/chkconfig --del rdisc
fi
postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
if [ "$1" -ge "1" ]; then
service rdisc restart >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
fi
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 therefore 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-2009-0977.html This bug was reported ten months ago and still isn't fixed. The fixes mentioned in RHBA-2009:0977-1 do not appear to have been effective. I scheduled updates to nine servers using Red Hat Network last night (2009-08-17). The update included iputils-20020927-22.el4. When iputils was installed it started rdisc and broke network connectivity on all of these servers. I had to run service rdisc stop service network restart on each machine to restart the network. As previously reported, rdisc is not used on any of these servers and is disabled at all runlevels. The iputils installation should respect run levels and only start rdisc where appropriate. With regards to comment 8, sadly I think this is an example of a weakness in rpm. The new package (iputils-20020927-22.el4) does indeed have a fix for the problem you are seeing, but the defect (and therefore the fix) is located in the post-uninstallation script for the package. The behavior you saw after upgrading to the -22.el4 version of the package was actually the post-uninstallation script from the old version of the package running. The bright side is that going forward you shouldn't see any further problems on upgrade now that the fix has been implemented. I have to explain current situation: 1. Unfortunately the bug fix doesn't work as was intended. I'm sorry for it. 2. Both comments #8 and #9 are true. EXPLANATION: The real bug fix is really in the post-uninstallation script. This means that this fix will not be applied in rel. 22 but later in rel. 23 in accordance with comment #9. Therefore I made one subsidiary extension that should ensure correct behaviour already in rel. 22. Unfortunately this extension doesn't work due to one character mistake in spec file (described behaviour in comment #8). I'm so sorry for this mistake. Jiri I've opened bug 519124 to further track the issue. |