Synopsis

Red Hat Satellite server bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat Satellite server packages that fix several bugs are now
available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6.

Description

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructures.
It allows for provisioning, remote management and monitoring of multiple Linux
deployments with a single, centralized tool.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• With Red Hat Satellite version 5.6, the DATE data type has been replaced by
  the TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIMEZONE data type in order to improve Satellite's
  behavior in multi-time zone setups. As a consequence, the search daemon stopped
  working when an external Oracle database was used. The search daemon has been
  modified so that its time zone is now set when connecting to an external
  database, which resolves the problem. (BZ#1023669)
  
• When using a PostgreSQL database, an empty and NULL strings are recognized as
  two different values. Consequently, an attempt to clone a child channel without
  selecting a parent channel failed with an Internal Server Error. To fix this
  problem, empty strings are now converted to the NULL value before they are
  passed to the PostgreSQL database. An attempt to clone a parentless child
  channel now fails with a proper informative error message. (BZ#1018194)
  
• When using RH Satellite 5.6 with a PostgreSQL database version 8.4, the query
  optimizer was unable to optimize an execution plan for certain search queries.
  Specifically, when searching for: modified configuration files for the given
  system, servers that had the errata autoupdate feature enabled, and servers with
  new errata. These issues significantly degraded the Satellite's performance.
  This update restructures the related elaborate queries so that the Satellite's
  performance meets the expectations in these cases. (BZ#1027050, BZ#1025636,
  BZ#1024395)
  
• When fetching system details for a virtual guest with an empty Virtualization
  field, the system.getDetails API failed with a NullPointerException. With this
  update, the underlying serializer code has been modified so that Satellite now
  handles such a situation gracefully and returns the requested system details
  with an empty string as the value of the Virtualization field. (BZ#1025626)
  
• Previously, cloning fully-synchronized channels that contained a large number
  of errata was a time- and resource-demanding process because errata were
  published one by one. This update significantly improves this process by
  publishing all cloned errata at once. (BZ#1012468)
  
• The Satellite's Web User Interface displayed disabled activation keys as being
  enabled, misleading users. This bug has been fixed and the Satellite's Web UI
  now shows a real state of the activation keys. (BZ#1007998)
  
• The process of listing errata that were available to be cloned into a custom
  channel on the Satellite's Web UI was very time-demanding and could result in an
  Internal Server Error. With this update, the related elaborate query has been
  restructured so that the Satellite's performance meets the expectations in this
  scenario. (BZ#1023482)
  

All users of Red Hat Satellite 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

As a part of the fix for bug 1023669, after successful package update,
please clean search indexes of spacewalk-search service, by running
the following command as root:

service rhn-search cleanindex

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 5 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1007998 - Unable to disable activation keys

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6

SRPM
spacewalk-java-2.0.2-50.el6sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: 35bd2373df3bc3f0683fbb301d6c1eea55a790b705f4ea23679755c7729e8a3e
spacewalk-search-2.0.2-1.el6sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: 41c9dd2bf70311ead870b9182b86501d77204fddcce2f0d653bf3c1126101dbf
spacewalk-web-2.0.3-18.el6sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: ccbcbba315957cce6588f7dce5164420c4253f23e44798c7d96cf7480d07e314
x86_64
spacewalk-base-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: cca71823bc9261ac2828ddaefdfb7e71f9ebc286f77bfa66eeda3541d02ff3e5
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: bd2237282e509b9a11073422fcc641fdfc9b3c0d9ef7247387dc18d962767eec
spacewalk-base-minimal-config-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 0e3d427d1fcba37e622a0c68e9a8a54c5bcf9f407ba5b1ecbae867a273e38624
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: be3f196534b2e318dcda92b1d05d88eb5993b6773b8efc520071e6ed72b09cda
spacewalk-grail-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 83c6b92b247de5defd34580f8b88271e85d75217b9df890e40b65497dd7f666e
spacewalk-html-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 24b5c38a4dad9a48d533998f282fcfc32883759c7807c9a72fb24d7d4b2b9e58
spacewalk-java-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: eaa6996fb053ecf93b4e556665abba6d71b1b9b013f76f154a98a64bc7971587
spacewalk-java-config-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b5367aba4ecedc84696a8d294023df0a1ecdf11d75a9cce32544fd098c9ef27b
spacewalk-java-lib-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f76f15ab21851706903ce9be05a6b646de3b931040134ffb0f8f90fddd016f55
spacewalk-java-oracle-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 63994e1568e81e7ad458d7d329151bcc4b51a2c0c99065e0d372cb5fddc21b40
spacewalk-java-postgresql-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 68e86e5ea8cd29710d79cac50037417a7a91132f003d5322d16a39cecae725b9
spacewalk-pxt-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 23eb7455db34abffd40486cb642ebc8030d70debf6ccafab89ad2441c3c49ec9
spacewalk-search-2.0.2-1.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b25fd35697ba3142fefaabd227379140d16b5c7387e01f45ece73cff9c7180e8
spacewalk-sniglets-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3285c0b08b813d1054b6d9be0b23875a8b83e046e8d44d137858c521bda38610
spacewalk-taskomatic-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4a43481bdd0c14a89a1f58609aa32bc408a837e4b03bf399629c2a4d949fd1e3
s390x
spacewalk-base-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: cca71823bc9261ac2828ddaefdfb7e71f9ebc286f77bfa66eeda3541d02ff3e5
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: bd2237282e509b9a11073422fcc641fdfc9b3c0d9ef7247387dc18d962767eec
spacewalk-base-minimal-config-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 0e3d427d1fcba37e622a0c68e9a8a54c5bcf9f407ba5b1ecbae867a273e38624
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: be3f196534b2e318dcda92b1d05d88eb5993b6773b8efc520071e6ed72b09cda
spacewalk-grail-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 83c6b92b247de5defd34580f8b88271e85d75217b9df890e40b65497dd7f666e
spacewalk-html-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 24b5c38a4dad9a48d533998f282fcfc32883759c7807c9a72fb24d7d4b2b9e58
spacewalk-java-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: eaa6996fb053ecf93b4e556665abba6d71b1b9b013f76f154a98a64bc7971587
spacewalk-java-config-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b5367aba4ecedc84696a8d294023df0a1ecdf11d75a9cce32544fd098c9ef27b
spacewalk-java-lib-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f76f15ab21851706903ce9be05a6b646de3b931040134ffb0f8f90fddd016f55
spacewalk-java-oracle-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 63994e1568e81e7ad458d7d329151bcc4b51a2c0c99065e0d372cb5fddc21b40
spacewalk-java-postgresql-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 68e86e5ea8cd29710d79cac50037417a7a91132f003d5322d16a39cecae725b9
spacewalk-pxt-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 23eb7455db34abffd40486cb642ebc8030d70debf6ccafab89ad2441c3c49ec9
spacewalk-search-2.0.2-1.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b25fd35697ba3142fefaabd227379140d16b5c7387e01f45ece73cff9c7180e8
spacewalk-sniglets-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3285c0b08b813d1054b6d9be0b23875a8b83e046e8d44d137858c521bda38610
spacewalk-taskomatic-2.0.2-50.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4a43481bdd0c14a89a1f58609aa32bc408a837e4b03bf399629c2a4d949fd1e3

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5

SRPM
spacewalk-java-2.0.2-50.el5sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: b573cf0426e789d7fdc9856f96b850beb3b087907874775082fc59afdcf11cbf
spacewalk-search-2.0.2-1.el5sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: e7080543bab76d44e33eec20e73be449eb775fdc77e8ab2596e5834beda619a2
spacewalk-web-2.0.3-18.el5sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: c31275e37c46dede5adea179252a62cf0fea9e604e5c14d3fd388ef2518a5889
x86_64
spacewalk-base-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 72c095619fea7b27c2aec4a3bcf1477e5cdcb846f60a99d64b04e849ee738a1c
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3d33e2e23b0da00047cbe214b2d1bda90337bef8f45180caf4bafd622d7e1ce5
spacewalk-base-minimal-config-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 85c97c79a233ae368fa0438c5d5608628c01a6b81a38f35a99cff638a8f68663
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8233ff437ed1de6c364e446c9d59178894055662a9ca95cca1e0f8cfd7c44fab
spacewalk-grail-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 9ba5d7836f1bc03fe1d83f1b28b88c5a25613e28be1b55a2ff6b5fc3b1a3c435
spacewalk-html-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: c5ca89e39f941533f1775bf433781e5b095ae241dec9756bfed9be2c4e28de6c
spacewalk-java-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 47beceed368b9d614f671630790a96b1ba03e93688d76448d98622e7df04b933
spacewalk-java-config-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: a264c678f7f7e21b0b2cf88f6eca32013a4deda17affcccb8cb41b16e58a4928
spacewalk-java-lib-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fa58daa4a9f0c9b56370462640f1fec017b89100ed02d02794bead7e7de273c5
spacewalk-java-oracle-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 451ae3178901cabee0b12d036c8d6288eef906a5265efd9953d9948415abdba3
spacewalk-java-postgresql-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 15abb4db22147bda2116bd88d027d2aea5e9a660975540b40f2d938cbad25c71
spacewalk-pxt-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4fd5d1a01214f67d5d678733467b9164c72d732177da2d930ab59e6c3389a195
spacewalk-search-2.0.2-1.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b0e1f20f00c3560e136d4b4fb72a75e1e19043e04f77b8d644e18fbee7697326
spacewalk-sniglets-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4dec074ceed0386b1d3717d1d00675b258b0da5974d7d14a5fc02f20a2240584
spacewalk-taskomatic-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: d709a0f39a579363bd231e492362509e8d5af3505f9cee6dbe461056f579bff3
s390x
spacewalk-base-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 72c095619fea7b27c2aec4a3bcf1477e5cdcb846f60a99d64b04e849ee738a1c
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3d33e2e23b0da00047cbe214b2d1bda90337bef8f45180caf4bafd622d7e1ce5
spacewalk-base-minimal-config-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 85c97c79a233ae368fa0438c5d5608628c01a6b81a38f35a99cff638a8f68663
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8233ff437ed1de6c364e446c9d59178894055662a9ca95cca1e0f8cfd7c44fab
spacewalk-grail-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 9ba5d7836f1bc03fe1d83f1b28b88c5a25613e28be1b55a2ff6b5fc3b1a3c435
spacewalk-html-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: c5ca89e39f941533f1775bf433781e5b095ae241dec9756bfed9be2c4e28de6c
spacewalk-java-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 47beceed368b9d614f671630790a96b1ba03e93688d76448d98622e7df04b933
spacewalk-java-config-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: a264c678f7f7e21b0b2cf88f6eca32013a4deda17affcccb8cb41b16e58a4928
spacewalk-java-lib-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: fa58daa4a9f0c9b56370462640f1fec017b89100ed02d02794bead7e7de273c5
spacewalk-java-oracle-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 451ae3178901cabee0b12d036c8d6288eef906a5265efd9953d9948415abdba3
spacewalk-java-postgresql-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 15abb4db22147bda2116bd88d027d2aea5e9a660975540b40f2d938cbad25c71
spacewalk-pxt-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4fd5d1a01214f67d5d678733467b9164c72d732177da2d930ab59e6c3389a195
spacewalk-search-2.0.2-1.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: b0e1f20f00c3560e136d4b4fb72a75e1e19043e04f77b8d644e18fbee7697326
spacewalk-sniglets-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4dec074ceed0386b1d3717d1d00675b258b0da5974d7d14a5fc02f20a2240584
spacewalk-taskomatic-2.0.2-50.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: d709a0f39a579363bd231e492362509e8d5af3505f9cee6dbe461056f579bff3

Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 6

SRPM
spacewalk-web-2.0.3-18.el6sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: ccbcbba315957cce6588f7dce5164420c4253f23e44798c7d96cf7480d07e314
x86_64
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: bd2237282e509b9a11073422fcc641fdfc9b3c0d9ef7247387dc18d962767eec
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: be3f196534b2e318dcda92b1d05d88eb5993b6773b8efc520071e6ed72b09cda
s390x
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: bd2237282e509b9a11073422fcc641fdfc9b3c0d9ef7247387dc18d962767eec
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: be3f196534b2e318dcda92b1d05d88eb5993b6773b8efc520071e6ed72b09cda

Red Hat Satellite 5 Managed DB 5.6 for RHEL 5

SRPM
spacewalk-web-2.0.3-18.el5sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: c31275e37c46dede5adea179252a62cf0fea9e604e5c14d3fd388ef2518a5889
x86_64
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3d33e2e23b0da00047cbe214b2d1bda90337bef8f45180caf4bafd622d7e1ce5
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8233ff437ed1de6c364e446c9d59178894055662a9ca95cca1e0f8cfd7c44fab
s390x
spacewalk-base-minimal-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 3d33e2e23b0da00047cbe214b2d1bda90337bef8f45180caf4bafd622d7e1ce5
spacewalk-dobby-2.0.3-18.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 8233ff437ed1de6c364e446c9d59178894055662a9ca95cca1e0f8cfd7c44fab