RHBA-2010:0611 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cman packages that fix bugs are now available.

Description

The Cluster Manager (cman) utility provides user-level services for
managing a Linux cluster.

This update applies the following bug fixes:

• fence_vmware and fence_vmware_helper cannot be executed. (BZ#606664)
• consensus timeout has been optimized. (BZ#618639)

Users of cman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which address
these issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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 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 - 606664 - cman-2.0.115-34.el5 /sbin/fence_vmware and /sbin/fence_vmware_helper
• BZ - 618639 - Failure detection time tripled in rhel5.5

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)