RHBA-2008:0771 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated up2date packages that fix several bugs are now available.

Description

The Red Hat Update Agent automatically queries Red Hat Network (RHN)
servers to determine which packages need to be updated on your system.

These updated packages fix the following bugs:

• registering with a universal default activation key (with no entitlements

left), caused an "error code 91: red hat software management exhausted"
error.

• rhn_check did not have a consistent environment with "osad" and "rhnsd",

which was seen by the "env" command. This may have caused failures.

• after installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on AMD64 or Intel® 64

systems, running up2date with the "--arch=[arch]" option failed with a
"package [package] is already installed" error. The up2date man page has
been updated to describe the "--arch" option.

• package removal failed if the package had dependencies. Now, rhn_check

checks and removes dependencies.

• after running the "service rhnsd reload" command, the "service rhnsd

status" command returned "rhnsd dead but pid file exists".

• rhn_check sent incorrect response codes back to servers. For example,

"%pre" and "%post" failures caused incorrect "Failed: packages requested
raised dependency problems" errors.

• the registration window incorrectly referenced "Red Hat Enterprise Linux

5", instead of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4".

• in failover environments, up2date failed if the "noSSLServerURL",

"serverURL", or "sslCACert" options in "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date" had a
trailing ";". Systems could not be updated using up2date. A trailing ";" no
longer causes up2date to fail.

• a pop-up notice did not occur when using rhn_register to register an

account -- that had no entitlements -- for Extended Update Support (EUS),
causing rhn_register to crash.

• using up2date to install updates may have caused "WARNING **: unknown

property" warnings.

• the "up2date --show-groups" command did not show any output when run on

64-bit PowerPC and IBM® System z systems.

• when using up2date with a yum repository, "getPackage" was called twice,

causing duplicate "[package-name] Retrieved" messages, when the package
was being installed, upgraded, or downloaded, for the first time.

• on Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1950 and 1955 systems, running "up2date --hardware"

caused "Reading DMI info failed" errors.

• up2date sometimes failed to install or update the "kernel-smp" package.
• using rhnreg_ks with activation keys to register a system failed.
• running "up2date -i" on a large RPM, for example, larger than 2 GB,

caused an "exceptions.OverflowError" error.

• snapshot rollbacks failed with a "Failed: packages requested raised

dependency problems" error.

• during Red Hat Enterprise Linux upgrades, when a system was subscribed to

the main and beta channels, up2date tried to install the latest package
version from each channel.

• there was no paragraph break between the "--arch" and "--help" options in

the up2date man page.

• on certain hardware, running "up2date --hardware" caused "Error reading

DMI information" errors.

As well, the account creation capability has been removed from the
rhn_register GUI and TUI. Users are now instructed to go to
"https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/sales/LoginInfo.do" for account creation.

Users of up2date are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 299861 - Package removals via rhn_check fail if there are dependencies
• BZ - 385161 - trailing ";" with sslCACert causes up2date breakage on failover setup
• BZ - 401321 - up2date: warning messages seen during update
• BZ - 430151 - remove account creation capability from rhn_register GUI
• BZ - 430153 - remove account creation capability from rhn_register TUI
• BZ - 434168 - exceptions.OverflowError when up2date'ing rpm bigger than 2GB
• BZ - 447407 - up2date tries to install never packages from main and beta channels
• BZ - 449743 - man page --arch and --help in one paragraph
• BZ - 450082 - up2date --show-groups does not work for s390x
• BZ - 450253 - missing newline after `service rhnsd reload`
• BZ - 450529 - up2date --hardware throws error "Reading DMI info failed"
• BZ - 451177 - wrong newlines when downloading packages
• BZ - 451194 - rhn_register GUI - incorrect description
• BZ - 451617 - rhn_register TUI looks like it can be used for user registration
• BZ - 452089 - rhn_register fails, error has occurred: exceptions.ImportError

CVEs

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References

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