4.91. rhn-client-tools

Bug Fixes

BZ#873531

When registering a system using certain locales (for example, Simplified Chinese or Japanese), and the user entered an invalid username and password, the firstboot application displayed an error message. However, missing line breaks caused the dialog box to become too large. This update adds line breaks in the error message, so that the dialog box is of reasonable size.

BZ#882933

Previously, when using the rhn_register tool in text user interface (TUI) mode, an invalid link was displayed on the "Setting up software updates" page. The link has been corrected and now points to the correct location.

BZ#886342

Previously, if the server's SSL certificate validation failed, attempting to register the system to RHN Classic failed with a traceback. With this update, a more useful error message is displayed instead of the traceback in the described scenario.

BZ#949645

Red Hat Network (RHN) Proxy did not work properly if separated from a parent by a slow network. Consequently, users who attempted to download larger repodata files and RPM packages experienced timeouts. This update changes both RHN Proxy and Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHN Client to allow all communications to honor a configured timeout value for connections.

Enhancement

BZ#949617

This update adds a function to get the number of physical CPU sockets in a managed system from Red Hat Network Satellite, the systems-management platform, via an API call.