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Bug 615340

Summary:	possible deadlock in ctime() called from signal handler
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component:	sysklogd	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Karel Srot <ksrot>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	4.6	CC:	dmair, fnadge, jwest, ksrot, moshiro, myamazak, ohudlick, pm-eus, pvrabec, sgrubb, tsmetana
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	OtherQA, ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, the login failed and an error message was printed if the syslogd daemon received a signal during writing into a slow console due to incorrect signal handler. With this update, the signal handler behaves as expected and the login is now successful.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-10-05 11:25:32 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	491637
Bug Blocks:

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-07-16 14:39:45 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #491637 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 5 Florian Nadge 2010-10-05 10:26:52 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, the login failed and an error message was printed if the syslogd daemon received a signal during writing into a slow console due to incorrect signal handler. With this update, the signal handler behaves as expected and the login is now successful.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-05 11:25:32 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 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-2010-0739.html