Synopsis

conman bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated conman packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number
of console devices and simultaneous users. ConMan currently supports local
serial devices and remote terminal servers.

The conman packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.2.7, which provides
a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. With this
update, support for the ipmiopts directive in the conman.conf configuration file
has been included. (BZ#951698)

This update also fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the length range of timezone strings was not sufficient to process
  all known timezone codes. As a consequence, the conmand daemon failed to start
  if the timezone name consisted of five or more characters. The maximum string
  length has been set to 32, and conmand now always starts as expected.
  (BZ#891938)
  

Users of conman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 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

Fixes

• BZ - 891938 - [conman] conmand fails to start up when timezone set to GMT-1, WARST, EASST & others

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 14c36244cc96efa0bb10fce12776438b67e84a8b7c4dea8526e4a1959b51686a
x86_64
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 79a2b0cd42ee864051644e78d41147ef82605f79cc26e46df1861a7984cab122
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 53bbde97a45e1d3a988cc7055c1b9a96d22561c678e8c55436ce95cd01d26665
i386
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 053188e98edfdcdfa9a56f5cef72b446ef710dcc73f95e440da64444391d3e0c
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 6a54637ddd9db42261ad94ce498b86f8789856364df52ea5afb42ee165fc9564

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 14c36244cc96efa0bb10fce12776438b67e84a8b7c4dea8526e4a1959b51686a
x86_64
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 79a2b0cd42ee864051644e78d41147ef82605f79cc26e46df1861a7984cab122
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 53bbde97a45e1d3a988cc7055c1b9a96d22561c678e8c55436ce95cd01d26665
i386
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 053188e98edfdcdfa9a56f5cef72b446ef710dcc73f95e440da64444391d3e0c
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 6a54637ddd9db42261ad94ce498b86f8789856364df52ea5afb42ee165fc9564

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 14c36244cc96efa0bb10fce12776438b67e84a8b7c4dea8526e4a1959b51686a
s390x
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: d56690020b250af8c5fe7841600189eb3d549dc0b1b851c5369c1086615a5910
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: fd3df7303075bf500513b25efe63ed9ef1432f6f78b3302e079d4aead4975302

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 14c36244cc96efa0bb10fce12776438b67e84a8b7c4dea8526e4a1959b51686a
ppc64
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: d06754d8bc387f356b99d50f10a502aeabfb88dcb0b285c18da2841eb7e386e7
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 4c61cb01a4927b545cbb6732c157f5087c904b073ceed37676dcedc515763eb2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 14c36244cc96efa0bb10fce12776438b67e84a8b7c4dea8526e4a1959b51686a
x86_64
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 79a2b0cd42ee864051644e78d41147ef82605f79cc26e46df1861a7984cab122
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 53bbde97a45e1d3a988cc7055c1b9a96d22561c678e8c55436ce95cd01d26665

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 14c36244cc96efa0bb10fce12776438b67e84a8b7c4dea8526e4a1959b51686a
x86_64
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 79a2b0cd42ee864051644e78d41147ef82605f79cc26e46df1861a7984cab122
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 53bbde97a45e1d3a988cc7055c1b9a96d22561c678e8c55436ce95cd01d26665
i386
conman-0.2.7-2.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 053188e98edfdcdfa9a56f5cef72b446ef710dcc73f95e440da64444391d3e0c
conman-debuginfo-0.2.7-2.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 6a54637ddd9db42261ad94ce498b86f8789856364df52ea5afb42ee165fc9564