RHBA-2011:0208 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat Network Satellite Server packages that fix two bugs are now
available for Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.4.

Description

Red Hat Network Satellite Server is a system management tool for Linux-based
infrastructures. It allows for the provisioning, remote management and
monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, running entitlement-check.py script as a part of Satellite upgrade

procedure might have failed with an error in situations where a new channel
family, which did not exist current Satellite certificate, was discovered in the
new certificate. Running the entitlement-check.py script now no longer returns
error in these circumstances. (BZ#670754)

• Previously, running recognize_guests.py script as a part of Satellite upgrade

procedure might have failed with an error in situations where the registered
guest hardware information in the database lacked several smbios fields. Running
recognize_guests.py now no longer returns error in these circumstances.
(BZ#671014)

All Users of Red Hat Network Satellite Server are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages that fix these bugs.

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 Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 i386
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.3 i386
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.2 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 670754 - entitlement-check.py fails with 'TypeError: iteration over non-sequence' if there's a discrepancy in channel families
• BZ - 671014 - python error in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/satellite-upgrade/recognize_guests.py

CVEs

(none)

References

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