RHBA-2011:1671 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated qpid-qmf packages that fix a bug and add various enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The qpid-qmf package provides an extensible management framework layered on Qpid
messaging.

• The qpid-qmf package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.12, which

provides a number of enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#706990)

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, when "RequestContext._complete" was invoked, it would

clear the Agent's context, but not the Agent's sequence manager. Consequently
qmf console objects caused memory leaks. With this update the code has been
corrected and the memory leak of object instances in the Python console no
longer occurs. (BZ#743657)

This update adds the following enhancement:

• The qmfv2 utility did not provide a way to determine via a pollable file

descriptor if a new event was available. Consequently more processor intensive
methods were used. With this update a new, optional, feature has been added,
"qmf_fd". It is a file descriptor that is readable if, and only if, there is at
least one qmf event to be processed. (BZ#699499)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated qpid-qmf packages, which fix this
bug and adds this enhancement.

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 Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• 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 Power, big endian 6 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• 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 - 699499 - [RFE] qmfv2 must provide mainloop integration
• BZ - 706990 - Rebase qpid-qmf to 0.12
• BZ - 743657 - The pure-python QMF console unnecessarily retains references to query results

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)