RHBA-2013:1289 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated abrt packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.

Description

ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool) is a tool to help users detect defects in
applications create bug reports with all the information needed by a maintainer
to fix it. It uses a plug-in system to extend its functionality. libreport
provides an API for reporting different problems in applications to different
bug targets, such as Bugzilla, FTP, and Trac.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, attempts to create a Python virtualenv environment using the

"--system-site-packages" option resulted in an exception when the site.py()
function attempted to load the abrt_exception_handler package. This was caused
because Python tried to load the abrt.pth file, in which the
abrt_exception_handler module was imported. Since the abrt_exception_handler
module was installed under the /usr/lib64 directory and the abrt.pth file was
installed under the /usr/lib directory, the site.py() function did not find the
required module. This update moves the abrt.pth file to the architecture
specific folder, so on 32-bit systems to the /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
directory and on 64-bit systems to the /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/
directory, which corrects this issue. (BZ#968345)

• Prior to this update, attempts to use ABRT to report bugs in a Bugzilla server

returned the following Remote Procedure Call (RPC) error message: "fatal: RPC
failed at server. The requested method 'bugzilla.getBug' was not found."
Consequently, Bugzilla tickets were not created, and bugs were not reported.
This update changes the code to use the new XMLRPC calls, and with the latest
version of ABRT, Bugzilla tickets are created without any problems.
(BZ#1002856))

Users of abrt 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• 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 IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.4 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 Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.4 x86_64
• 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 - 968345 - abrt.pth prevents python virtualenv creation

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)