Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.4 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual page 110

Chapter 1. Package Updates
• in some cases, when network service failed to restart, the /etc/init.d/network initscript would return
an incorrect status of "0". With this update, /etc/init.d/network has been modified to return 1 if the
service fails to start or if any NIC fails to get an address.
• a bonding device cannot be added to a bridge until at least one slaved ethernet interface has
been added to the bridge. Previously, the order of commands in ifup-eth script attempted to add a
bonding device prior to the ethernet interface being added. With this update, this issue has been
(BZ#463014)
resolved.
• previously, if a suspend or hibernate action did not complete, the "/.suspended" file may have
persisted thorough a reboot. Consequently, if the system is rebooted, and another suspend or
hibernate action is invoked, the system would fall back to a virtual terminal display. With this update,
the rc.sysinit script now removes the "/.suspended" file during the boot sequence, which resolves
(BZ#270861)
this issue.
• previously, the ifup-ipsec initscript did not allow the Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and
Authentication Header (AH) protocols to be initialized independently. With this update, configuration
parameters are now implemented in ifup-ipsec, allowing these protocols to be activated seperately.
563
(BZ#251494)
• previously, support for raw devices in the upstream kernel was deprecated. However, this support
has been returned to the kernel. Consequently, in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, support for raw
devices has also been returned. In this update, the initscripts packages have been updated,
allowing rawdevices to again be configured by editing /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices.
• previously, the rc.sysinit script incorrectly handled the clean-up of sub-directories in "/var/run/libvirt/".
Consequently, rc.sysinit could not remove the "/var/run/libvirt/network/" and "/var/run/libvirt/qemu/"
directories. With this update rc.sysinit now correctly removes these directories.
• previously, the /etc/init.d/network script initialized ipsec tunnels before vlan interfaces.
Consequently, route handling traffic was not created between tunneled networks as the tunneled
network was not yet configured. With this update, this issue has been resolved.
• The documentation for the /etc/sysconfig/ directory (located at /usr/share/doc/initscript-<version>/
sysconfig.txt) has been updated with information about BONDING_OPS.
• previously, ctc and netiucv devices may not have been initialized automatically during boot. With this
update, the ifup-ctc and ifup-iucv initscripts have been changed to resolve this
• systems that have both an NFS server and a client with NFS shares mounted, running the "service
netfs stop" command will correctly unmount the NFS shares. Previously, however, this command
also unmounted "/proc/fs/nfsd", which is required by the NFS server. Consequently, after running
this command to unmount NFS shares, clients would be unable to mount shares on the NFS server
based on that machine. With this update, the netfs initscript has been updated, resolving this issue.
569
(BZ#481794)
• previously netfs initialized multiple device (MD) arrays (using the mdadm command) before LVM
was initialized. Consequently, an MD array of iSCSI devices would not initialize automatically. With
this update, the netfs script has been updated, resolving this issue.
• previously, if a GFS2 filesystem is listed in /etc/fstab, rc.sysinit would fail when attempting to mount
the filesystem, as the cluster services had not been not started yet. With this update, the initscripts
have been updated to resolve this issue.
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562
(BZ#494963)
560
(BZ#481002)
(BZ#472480)
(BZ#480627)
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564
(BZ#472891)
565
(BZ#505600)
566
(BZ#481733)
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issue.(BZ#475721)
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