RHBA-2011:1466 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spacewalk-backend packages that fix various bugs are now available for
Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.

Description

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

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, when the user attempted to sync a channel with the

default organization using a channel dump from the same server, the
Inter-Satellite Sync (ISS) failed with a unique constraint violation error. With
this update, the underlying source code has been adapted to address this issue,
and the Inter-Satellite Sync no longer fails in this scenario. (BZ#517173)

• When the user attempted to register a system with an activation key that

specified the Red Hat Network Monitoring entitlement and this entitlement was
not available, the registration failed and the following error message was
presented to the user:

Registration failed: RHN Software Management service entitlements exhausted

Since this error message may have been misleading, this update rephrases it and
adds the name of the entitlement in question. (BZ#600555)

• Previously, setting an Inter-Satellite Sync (ISS) parent in the

/etc/rhn/rhn.conf configuration file caused the rhn-satellite-activate utility
to fail with the following error message:

Population of the Channel Family permissions failed.

This happened, because rhn-satellite-activate incorrectly attempted to sync the
entitlement certificate from this ISS parent. This update applies a patch that
makes sure the certificate is synced from the RHN parent, and
rhn-satellite-activate now works as expected. (BZ#656294)

• Prior to this update, deleting a package from a repository during repository

synchronization caused the reposync process to terminate unexpectedly with the
HTTP 404 error (Not Found). This update corrects the underlying source code so
that reposync now skips missing packages and proceeds with synchronization.
(BZ#667143)

• Due to an error in the option parser, the rhn-satellite-exporter utility

incorrectly allowed users to supply both "--use-rhn-date" and "--use-sync-date"
command line options at the same time. This update corrects this error and the
option parser now treats these options as mutually exclusive. (BZ#672277)

• Previously, the rhn_package_manager utility may have failed to upload metadata

to the Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1 server if this server was running on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This update applies a patch that corrects this error so
that the rhn_package_manager utility no longer fails in this situation.
(BZ#711805)

• When running the satellite-sync utility on a channel that was larger than 1

GB, the displayed estimate of remaining data to be downloaded was not accurate.
This update corrects the underlying source code to make sure the satellite-sync
utility now always displays an accurate estimate. (BZ#731692)

• When the debugging level (the "debug" option) was set to "6" in the

/etc/rhn/rhn.conf configuration file, the /var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log
file incorrectly contained "0.0.0.0" instead of actual IP addresses. This update
applies a patch that corrects this error, and IP addresses are now logged as
expected. (BZ#736130)

• Prior to this update, an attempt to download more than 1013 files caused the

spacewalk-repo-sync utility to fail with a traceback. With this update, the
underlying source code has been adapted to prevent this error, and
spacewalk-repo-sync can now download more than 1013 packages as expected.
(BZ#753158)

All users of Red Hat Network Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which 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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• 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 - 517173 - ISS throws oracle unique constraint violation error when trying to sync a channel to org1 using channel-dump from other org from same satellite
• BZ - 600555 - At registration, Satellite report of exhausted entitlements has confusing message
• BZ - 656294 - when iss parent is set in rhn.conf, rhn-satellite-activation end with error
• BZ - 667143 - Reposync crashes after file not found
• BZ - 672277 - Exporter allows incorrect combination command line options
• BZ - 711805 - rhn-package-manager fails to upload metadata to Satellite 541 RHEL6
• BZ - 731692 - satellite-sync fails hard on basic math
• BZ - 753158 - spacewalk-repo-sync fails when downloading more than 1013 files

CVEs

(none)

References

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