RHBA-2011:1696 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated python-rhsm package that fixes multiple bugs is now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The python-rhsm package contains a small library for communicating with the
representational state transfer (REST) interface of a Red Hat Unified
Entitlement Platform. This interface is used for the management of system
entitlements, certificates, and access to content.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the firstboot utility was trying to set an erroneous

environment variable LANG=us. As a result, firstboot was unable to start
properly. With this update, the C locale is now used as the fallback locale so
that the problem does not occur anymore. (BZ#700601)

• If a user name containing a white space was submitted during the registration

process in the Subscription Manager, an incorrect error message was displayed.
This problem has been fixed in this update so that the correct error message
"Invalid credentials" is now displayed. (BZ#719378)

• If a subscription was selected in the My Subscriptions tab in the Subscription

Manager, and then the Unsubscribe button was pressed, an error occurred. With
this update, the problem has been fixed so that the unsubscribe function in the
Subscription Manager now works, as expected. (BZ#728266)

• The /etc/rhsm/ca/candlepin-stage.pem, /etc/rhsm/ca/fakamai-cp1.pem, and

/etc/rhsm/ca/redhat-uep.pem certificates have been moved to the updated
python-rhsm package so that it is now possible for python-rhsm to register with
the hosted Candlepin system. (BZ#736166)

• If the rhsmcertd daemon received information about an existing update, but no

products were installed, an exception occurred. Also, if the virt-who agent
attempted to update the guest systems of a host, but there were no guest systems
available, an exception occurred. (BZ#746241)

All users of python-rhsm 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 Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 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 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 (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 719378 - White space in user name causes error
• BZ - 721065 - Include python-rhsm in RHEL 6.2.
• BZ - 728266 - Unsubscribe from subscription manager GUI is broken.
• BZ - 736166 - need certificates from subscription-manager rpm pulled into python-rhsm
• BZ - 746241 - UEPConnection.updateConsumer will not allow passing [] for facts, installed_products, or guest_uuids

CVEs

(none)

References

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