RHBA-2009:1267 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated sblim packages that fix a bug are now available.

Description

SBLIM stands for Standards-Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability.
It consists of a set of standards-based, Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) modules that use the Common Information Model (CIM) standard to
gather and provide systems management information, events, and methods to
local or networked consumers via an CIM object services broker using the
CMPI (Common Manageability Programming Interface) standard. This package
provides a set of core providers and development tools for systems
management applications.

These updated sblim packages provide fixes for the following bugs and
add the following enhancement:

• when the sblim-cmpi-dhcp package is installed, it modifies the

files under /var/lib/Pegasus owned by the tog-pegasus package.
Previously, when sblim was installed in the course of an "everything"
installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on the PowerPC architecture,
the modifications that sblim made in the /var/lib/Pegasus directory
prevented the post-install scriptlet from completing the
provider-register commands. In turn, this would prevent installation
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 from completing. The provider-register
commands are no longer provided in the post-install scriptlet,
therefore avoiding this situation and allowing installation of the
operating system to complete normally. Users of SBLIM who need to
register provider modules for tog-pegasus should register these
modules manually -- refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Technical Notes for instructions. (BZ#512123)

• the provider in the sblim-cmpi-network subpackage executes

/sbin/ifconfig to generate localized output. In the section of the
code that generates wbemcli output for IPv4 addresses, the
language for ifconfig was not identified, with the result that no
output was generated at all when the LANG= environment was set to
anything other than en_US. IPv4Address, IPv6Address, and SubnetMask
were then all reported as "NULL". The language passed to ifconfig is now
specified as en_US, so that meaningful output is returned, regardless
of the language of the environment. (BZ#458118)

• the spec file for the sblim package was originally written for use

with an earlier version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Attempts
to build the sblim package from source using more recent versions of
the GCC would therefore fail. The spec file is now updated so that it
works with current versions of the GCC. (BZ#496999)

• the sblim packages now include new CIM-based instrumentation to

configure DHCP servers. This instrumentation is packaged in
sblim-wbemsmt-dhcp. (BZ#442777)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated sblim packages, which
resolve these issues and add this enhancement.

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/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 458118 - i18n env should be reset when running cimserver
• BZ - 496999 - the src.rpm can't be rebuilt
• BZ - 512123 - Installation timeout when installing tog-pegasus and tog-pegasus-devel

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Technical_Notes/Known_Issues-sblim.html