RHBA-2011:0387 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat Network Satellite Server packages that fix various bugs are now
available for Red Hat Network Satellite 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:

• The spacewalk-repo-sync utility did not honor http_proxy variables set in

/etc/rhn/rhn.conf. This error has been fixed, and spacewalk-repo-sync now reads
the HTTP proxy server settings from the /etc/rhn/rhn.conf file as expected.
(BZ#657091)

• The presence of a non-ASCII character in a configuration file could cause the

rhn_check utility to fail with the following error message:

exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError : 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9'
in position 150: ordinal not in range(128)

This update addresses this issue, and configuration files that contain non-ASCII
characters are now processed as expected. (BZ#670793)

• When Red Hat Network Satellite Server encounters an error, it automatically

generates an email message with a traceback in it. Previously, this email
included a database password in a plain text form. This update corrects this
error, and traceback messages no longer disclose database passwords. (BZ#671051)

• An issue when packages downloaded using spacewalk-sync --no-rpms caused the

spacewalk-update-signatures utility to fail has been fixed. (BZ#671462)

• Missing GPG key ID for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has been added. (BZ#671464)
• Update of satellite-sync utility resolves an issue that occurred when the

Content Provider field was not correctly set for all freshly downloaded
packages. (BZ#671465)

• Update of satellite-sync utility resolves an issue that occurred when
• -no-rpms option was used. (BZ#690173)

All users of Red Hat Network Satellite Server are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Additionally, this update requires the database schema to be updated. To do
so, take the following steps:

• Shut down RHN Satellite by typing the following at a shell prompt

as root:

rhn-satellite stop

• Back up the Oracle database. For embedded database variants, run:

su - oracle
db-control backup /path/to/the/backup

For an external database, consult your database administrator.

• Start the Oracle database (embedded database variants only):

service oracle start

• Update the database schema by using the spacewalk-schema-upgrade command

as root:

spacewalk-schema-upgrade

This process updates your database schema to the latest version. The
spacewalk-schema-upgrade command will inform you about the results of
the upgrade and exact locations of schema upgrade log files.

• Restart RHN Satellite. As root, run:

service oracle stop (embedded database variants only)
rhn-satellite start

• Fix the Content Provider field for already downloaded packages. As

root, run:

spacewalk-update-signatures -d $(spacewalk-cfg-get default_db)

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

Fixes

• BZ - 657091 - spacewalk-repo-sync ignores http proxy settings
• BZ - 670793 - RHN Satellite v5.4 returns exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError if config files contain german umlauts (ä,ö,ü, etc.)
• BZ - 671051 - DB password appearing in traceback email sent by satellite
• BZ - 671462 - Problems with spacewalk-update-signatures cause aborts.
• BZ - 671464 - Content Provider of RHEL6 packages not updated due to missing reference data
• BZ - 671465 - Content Provider not being updated on synching packages
• BZ - 690173 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith' - when syncing from dump with --no-rpms

CVEs

(none)

References

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