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Bug 1662858 - Please update edac-utils to version 0.18
Summary: Please update edac-utils to version 0.18
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: edac-utils
Version: 7.6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Aristeu Rozanski
QA Contact: Jiri Dluhos
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Blocks: 1656539
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-02 08:51 UTC by Ole Holm Nielsen
Modified: 2019-08-06 12:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: edac-utils-0.16-16.el7
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 12:44:07 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2095 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:44:08 UTC

Description Ole Holm Nielsen 2019-01-02 08:51:00 UTC 
Description of problem:
Update of version 0.16 to 0.18 to fix the bugs in https://github.com/grondo/edac-utils/blob/master/NEWS.  We badly need this bugfix from the NEWS page:
Version 0.18 (2011-11-09);
- Do not print "No errors to report" with edac-util --quiet

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.16

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edac-util --quiet

Actual results:
edac-util: No errors to report.

Expected results:
(no output expected with --quiet)

Additional info:
We need to run "edac-util --quiet" from crontab in order to detect EDAC soft memory errors.  The output should really be quiet, except when actual EDAC errors are present.
Comment 5 Trevor Cordes 2019-01-20 10:59:01 UTC 
See bz #1277443.  If we can get it into Fedora, eventually it'll be in RHEL.

Is that github link the official upstream for edac-utils now?  Is 0.18 really from many years ago?
Comment 6 Ole Holm Nielsen 2019-01-21 07:57:43 UTC 
(In reply to Trevor Cordes from comment #5)
> See bz #1277443.  If we can get it into Fedora, eventually it'll be in RHEL.

We need the updated edac-utils in RHEL7 today, thanks a lot!  We want to run edac-util on our production servers to monitor their health.
Fedora is not going to go onto our production servers.
Future RHEL versions (8?) is unfortunately not helping us today.

> Is that github link the official upstream for edac-utils now?  Is 0.18
> really from many years ago?

Yes, it seems so.  The edac-utils author is apparently Mark Grondona <mgrondona>, see
https://github.com/grondo/edac-utils/blob/master/AUTHORS
It's amazing that the update to 0.18 wasn't made years ago, but better late than never!
Hopefully the update 0.16->0.18 will be a simple one, given that only minor changes were introduced.
Comment 7 Aristeu Rozanski 2019-01-21 14:36:09 UTC 
Yes, edac-utils was replaced by rasdaemon for quite a while. All new development happens there.
Comment 8 Ole Holm Nielsen 2019-01-21 14:41:42 UTC 
Thanks a lot, I should take a closer look at rasdaemon!
Comment 9 Ben Woodard 2019-01-22 17:09:50 UTC 
Since edac-utils is already in RHEL7, perhaps we can propose to pull back the trivial patch they need or update to 0.18, just to give the user more time to move to rasdaemon.
Comment 10 Mark A. Grondona 2019-01-22 17:15:14 UTC 
The commit in question is here:

https://github.com/grondo/edac-utils/commit/c29b14d0d07184bd2d250bf355a1dee6faa47572

in case it is helpful.
Comment 11 Aristeu Rozanski 2019-01-22 17:18:10 UTC 
That's what I did. Only backported the patch to fix the issue with --quiet.
Comment 12 Mark A. Grondona 2019-01-22 17:38:02 UTC 
(In reply to Aristeu Rozanski from comment #11)
> That's what I did. Only backported the patch to fix the issue with --quiet.

Thanks!
Comment 13 Trevor Cordes 2019-01-23 07:53:49 UTC 
Wow, I had never heard of rasdaemon, and I do a lot of linux reading and searching around for ECC details.  Thanks for that tidbit of info.  I'm using rasdaemon now.  The sqlite db aspect sounds like a really good idea.  Docs aren't so hot though.

For other people to find it in the future, perhaps a note in the edac-utils man page saying it's superseded by rasdaemon would be useful.

Thanks so much for the useful tip.  I'll share it with all my ECC buddies.
Comment 14 Ole Holm Nielsen 2019-01-23 09:21:34 UTC 
(In reply to Trevor Cordes from comment #13)
> Wow, I had never heard of rasdaemon, and I do a lot of linux reading and
> searching around for ECC details.  Thanks for that tidbit of info.  I'm
> using rasdaemon now.  The sqlite db aspect sounds like a really good idea. 
> Docs aren't so hot though.

Did you see the rasdaemon docs in https://pagure.io/rasdaemon ?
Comment 20 Jiri Dluhos 2019-01-25 22:41:15 UTC 
Confirming that the new package contains the fix, functionally.

# RHEL7.6 before installing new edac-utils (have edac-utils-0.16-15.el7)

$ edac-util --quiet
edac-util: No errors to report.

# new version downloaded 

$ rpm -U edac-utils-0.16-16.el7.x86_64.rpm 
$ edac-util --quiet
$

VERIFIED. :-)
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:44:07 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2095
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