RHBA-2011:1059 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated piranha package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Piranha provides high-availability and load balancing services for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Piranha includes various tools to administer and configure the
Linux Virtual Server (LVS), as well as the heartbeat and failover components.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the pulse daemon aborted unexpectedly with a

segmentation fault when trying to reload if there were services without defined
servers. This update restarts only running services. Now, the pulse daemon
reloads as expected. (BZ#674859)

• Prior to this update, the nanny service forcibly terminated monitoring of all

the remaining services as well. This update allows to disable this behavior. A
new option in lvs.cf, hard_shutdown, controls this behavior. Old behavior is
retained with the default setting of 1 and manual intervention is required
with 0. The remaining monitors are not affected. (BZ#505172)

All Piranha users are advised to upgrade to 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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 505172 - a failure to start a single nanny kills off *all* running nannys
• BZ - 674859 - "service pulse reload" is resulting in lvsd segfaulting

CVEs

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References

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