RHBA-2009:1498 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated v7 package that fixes several bugs is now available.

Description

v7, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux hardware certification test suite,
verifies the compatibility of hardware devices. Each v7 test run builds a
results database for submission to Red Hat's hardware catalog as an RPM
package. The v7 hardware certification test suite replaces hts for
certifying hardware for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This updated package addresses the following issues:

• because of NVRAM issues, when attempting to boot Itanium images as

fully-virtualized guests, the boot process stopped at the Extensible
Firmware Interface (EFI) shell. A manual workaround was possible, but with
this update, if an Itanium image is booted, two pre-configured NVRAM files

• - nvram_v7ia64 and nvram_v7ia64.uuid -- are added to /usr/lib/xen/boot/

and the image boots completely and automatically, as expected. (BZ#517966)

• creating a test results rpm package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 using

the "v7 submit" command presented multiple "'unicode' object has no
attribute 'decode'" error messages. The necessary type conversion has been
added to this update and the error message no longer presents. (BZ#520657)

• when a file generated by a test exceed the limit set in the v7

environment file, /etc/v7.xml, a message warning the file will not be
attached to the results is printed. Previously, generating this message
could cause a traceback error. The message structure was edited for this
update and the traceback no longer occurs. (BZ#517215)

• /etc/httpd/conf.d/v7.conf did not have FollowSymlinks set. Consequently,

attempting to access files stored in /var/v7/ via http resulted in
FORBIDDEN errors. FollowSymlinks is now set in v7.conf and files in
/var/v7/ are accessible via http. (BZ#521611)

• when running tests on fully-virtualized guests, if the unpacked file name

of a fully-virtualized guest .img file did not match what v7 was expecting,
the test would fail with traceback errors. With this update, v7 now renames
unpacked .img files to the expected name after moving the file to the
destination directory, ensuring tests run as expected and the traceback
errors do not occur. (BZ#521964)

• the default downloaded guest configuration file, /etc/xen/v7i386, assumed

the xen bridge is xenbr0, which was not always the case. If xenbr0 was not
found, fully-virtualized tests failed. With this update, v7 now checks for
and uses a local configuration file if one is present. If a local
configuration file does not exist, v7 now checks the xen bridge device name
and generates an appropriate configuration file at run time. (BZ#514586)

All hardware certification test suite users should install this updated
package which fixes these bugs.

Solution

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

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains
the desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 5 ppc
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 5 ia64
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 5 i386
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 ppc
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 ia64
• Red Hat Hardware Certification Test Suite 4 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 514586 - FV tests fail if xenbr0 not found
• BZ - 517215 - over-limit test-generated files can cause a traceback in post-run file attachment code
• BZ - 520657 - v7-15: Error when running "v7 submit" to create a test results rpm package on RHEL4
• BZ - 521611 - /etc/httpd/conf.d/v7.conf should have FollowSymlinks set
• BZ - 521964 - Running v7 FV guest tests with mis-named data image file results in python traceback

CVEs

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References

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