Kernel 2.6 based: April 2004 stream

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Category: operating system. Contains the source tree of a set of user space utilities that should to be used together with the zSeries and S/390 Linux kernel and device drivers.

s390-tools-1.3.2-april2004.tar.gz / MD5 recommended (superseded) (2004-09-23)

Added new tool/feature:

• New tool: vmconvert
  With vmconvert it is possible to convert system dumps created by the z/VM VMDUMP tool into dumps with lkcd format. These lkcd dumps can then be analyzed with the dump analysis tool lcrash.
• zipl: added FBA dump support
  With this support it is possible to prepare FBA disks for system dumps.

This package contains the following bug fix:

Description:

dasdfmt, dasdview, fdasd: Several dasd tools overwrite memory, since allocated buffers are too small.

Symptom:

Running fdasd, dasdfmt, and dasdview results in segmentation violations in certain error situations. This was detected by the BEAM tool that does some bound checking.

Problem:

Allocated buffers that are used to write to by sprintf are too small.

Solution:

Increase buffer size and use snprintf instead of sprintf.

Problem-ID:

10483

Note: Because of missing kernel-interfaces the following s390-tools from 1.3 will not work with the "August 2001 stream": start_hsnc/ip-watcher, osasnmpd, qetharp, and qethconf.

SCSI IPL and dump:
To be able to use SCSI ipl and dump (zipl/zfcpdump) appropriate enablement microcode (FC9904) is required.
SCSI IPL for Linux as a VM-guest requires z/VM Version 4 Release 4 (PTF UM30989 installed) or higher.

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