RHBA-2013:1702 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rhn-client-tools packages that fix several bugs are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Red Hat Network Client Tools provide programs and libraries that allow the
system to receive software updates from Red Hat Network (RHN).

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the rhn-channel manual page incorrectly referred to the

"--username" option instead of "--user". This mistake has been corrected and the
rhn-channel manual page now correctly refers to the "--user" option.
(BZ#891746)

• Prior to this update, some messages written in English occurred in the

Japanese installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. The untranslated strings
have been translated, and the messages are now shown in the correct language.
(BZ#912984)

• Previously, the rhn-client-tools code called by the sosreport utility on Red

Hat Enterprise Linux 6 terminated unexpectedly with a traceback. The bug has
been fixed and and the information about hardware is now correctly gathered by
sosreport. (BZ#983999)

• Previously, a machine with many CPUs could report large value for idle time

for all its processors. Consequently, the idle time value did not fit into
XML-RPC's integer limits and running the rhn_check command on a problematic
machine resulted in a traceback error. The bug has been fixed and rhn_check in
the problematic scenarios works now correctly. (BZ#994531)

• Previously, the rhn-profile-sync utility terminated unexpectedly with a

traceback when an older version of the rhn-virtualization-host package was
installed on the machine. The bug has been fixed by requiring a newer version of
rhn-virtualization-host. (BZ#997637)

Users of rhn-client-tools 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 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
• 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 - 891746 - Typo in rhn-channel man page
• BZ - 983999 - rhn-client-tools + sosreport = crash
• BZ - 994531 - rhn_check exception: OverflowError, "int exceeds XML-RPC limits"
• BZ - 997637 - rhn-profile-sync throws "exceptions.TypeError: refresh() takes no arguments (1 given)" due to code in rhn-virtualization-host

CVEs

(none)

References

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