RHBA-2011:0902 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated subscription-manager packages that fix several bugs are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The Subscription Manager tool allows users to understand the specific products
which have been installed on their machines, and the specific subscriptions
which their machines are consuming.

Warning: Before applying this update, there is a manual step that you may need
to perform. This step assumes that you are using the new subscription manager
entitlement tooling to apply software updates. If you are encountering an
"[Errno 14] problem with the local client certificate" error message when
executing yum commands, you will need to run the following commands as root:

# rm -f /etc/pki/entitlement/*
# subscription-manager refresh

Note that systems that are using Red Hat Network Classic for software
entitlement updates do not need to perform this manual step before applying this
errata update.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• When the subscription-manager utility had been upgraded, it put incorrect data

to the sslclientkey repository parameter value. Consequently, when the yum
utility was executed to install a software, yum terminated with the "[Errno 14]
problem with the local client certificate" error message. The bug in
subscription-manager has been fixed and yum can now be run without any
certificate errors. (BZ#712409)

• Previously, running the firstboot utility with the "-r" option, while the

subscription-manager-firstboot utility was already installed, caused firstboot
to terminate with a traceback; firstboot also failed to display a message
stating that the computer was already registered with Red Hat Network. This bug
has been fixed, firstboot now displays the warning message properly and no
tracebacks are issued in the described scenario. (BZ#712128)

• Two variations were used in the ProductName parameter for the workstation

subscription: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation" and "Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 Workstation". As a consequence, users running the "subscription-manager
list --installed" command, while subscribed to the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Workstation" subscription, got a misleading report. With this update, the
ProductId parameter is used instead to compare subscriptions in the described
scenario, and the bug no longer occurs. (BZ#712130)

• Previously, the "Start Date" and "End Date" fields in the Contract Selection

dialog window of the subscription-manager-gui utility were not populated. With
this update, the dates are displayed as expected. (BZ#712408)

All users of subscription-manager 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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.1 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.1 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.1 i386
• Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance (from RHUI) 6.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 712128 - firstboot -r with installed subscription-manager-firstboot produces traceback
• BZ - 712130 - subscription manager cli uses product name comparisons in the list command
• BZ - 712408 - dates do not appear in contract selection dialog
• BZ - 712409 - subscription-manager putting incorrect data in for sslclientkey in repo file

CVEs

(none)

References

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