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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0900 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0900 - Bug Fix Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

virt-who bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated virt-who packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancement are
now available.

Description

The virt-who package provides an agent that collects information about virtual
guests present in the system and reports them to the subscription manager.

The virt-who package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.6, which provides a
number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#790000)

These updated virt-who packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

  • When the libvirtd daemon was stopped, the virt-who utility no longer received

information about the state of the guest, and showed an inaccurate list of guest
UUIDs. With this update, polling is used to check the connection to the libvirtd
daemon, and the time for which the list of UUIDs is inaccurate was minimized.
(BZ#746163)

  • Prior to this update, the virt-who utility could not connect to the libvirt

daemon due to a regression in the code that handles forking of the virt-who
daemon. With this update, a connection is open to the libvirtd daemon after the
fork of the virt-who daemon; thus, fixing this issue. (BZ#813299)

  • This update includes a missing python-suds dependency into the virt-who

specfile. The missing dependency was causing the virt-who daemon to fail to
start. (BZ#801657)

  • The virt-who daemon did not use double forking when it was started.

Consequently, the daemon did not detach from the terminal correctly. With this
update, virt-who uses double forking, and is able to correctly detach itself
from the terminal. (BZ#806225)

  • Previously, the virt-who utility could not handle all events that were being

sent by the libvirtd daemon. If an unrecognized event was received, virt-who
logged an IndexError in the logs, and returned a traceback error. With this
update, virt-who handles all error events (even unknown), and no longer returns
a traceback error. (BZ#815279)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated virt-who packages, which resolve
these issues and add these 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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 - 746163 - virt-who loses reading guest info upon libvirtd restarts
  • BZ - 790000 - Rebase virt-who to version 0.6 in RHEL 6.3
  • BZ - 801657 - Can not start virt-who service.
  • BZ - 806225 - virt-who don't do double fork when the daemon is starting.
  • BZ - 813299 - Failed to connect socket to "/var/run/libvirt/libvirtd-sock-ro"
  • BZ - 815279 - IndexError was shown on the shell command screen about UUID tests

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
x86_64
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35
i386
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
x86_64
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35
i386
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
x86_64
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35
i386
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
x86_64
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35
i386
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
s390x
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
ppc64
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
x86_64
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
x86_64
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35
i386
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: defb4ecd14a8abbb4d39a26b2977b2e944cfc59af8df31165664449066010873
s390x
virt-who-0.6-6.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 172391ec7d584f628d562eb839b85d6f278b95f436113c6d87f6f5237d057a35

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