Bug 132257
| Summary: | LTC-8859: softdog.o need to be included into RHEL distributions | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Ingolf Salm <salm> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jan Glauber <jglauber> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | bjohnson, dff, peterm, petrides, riel, shillman, tburke, zaitcev |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | s390 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-05-18 13:28:01 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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This is a feature request, not a bug report. Ingolf, You know the process here - this goes thru Issue tracker, not buzilla. We did this for PPC for U2, why now for mainframe ? Sorry, Bob. I wasn't sure, if this is a feature request, because there is an open LTC bugzilla. Our System Automation product requires that support. Without it, RHEL 3 can not be supported. Tivoli System Automation for Linux is one of the key Linux system management products for complex applications/middleware. Should I open an issue tracker ? Yes this should be a feature request, LDP and IT. The s390,x software watchdog support was committed to the RHEL3 U5 patch pool on 18-Feb-2005 (in kernel version 2.4.21-27.16.EL). The s390,x software watchdog config changes have just been committed to the RHEL3 U5 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-32.EL). 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/RHSA-2005-294.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: softdog.o is required for "dead man switch" functionality. This allows for the following: unless the application "contacts" the module periodically, the kernel reboots. This is used in our High- Availability software to ensure that critical software components of the system are not blocked for long periods. If they do get blocked then the OS needs to crash. System Automation can not support RHEL without softdog. As of bugzilla LTC-8859 it was requested for RHEL 3 U3. We verified U3, but softdog is not included. This problem need to be fixed with RHEL 3 U4 latest. Problem is also applicable for RHEL 4. I opened an LDP requirement too (LDP req. 91042). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.use softdog functionality 2. 3. Additional info: