RHBA-2014:0228 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat Satellite server packages that fix several bugs and add one
enhancement 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:

• Due to a bug in the Red Hat Satellite code, executing scheduled actions for

multiple systems could result in unique constraint violation errors on the
server side when a single client tried to update its package profile on the
server multiple times. A patch has been applied to address this bug, and the
unique constraint violation errors no longer appear in the aforementioned
scenario. (BZ#924179)

• Due to a race condition between two database transactions (xml-rpc API calls),

a database deadlock could occur. The deadlock caused the database to kill one of
the competing transactions, and the spacewalk-clone-by-date tool failed to
complete the task. This update adds proper table locking, and the deadlock no
longer occurs in the described scenario. (BZ#1023334)

• The adoption of PostgreSQL in Satellite 5.6 caused package search queries to

become slower, especially with multiple packages or cloned channels. The
underlying source code has been modified to improve the performance when
querying, and the package search is now faster under most circumstances.
(BZ#1035429)

• Previously, calling the systems.listPackages() Red Hat Satellite API function

could return an invalid package ID. With this update, the system.listPackages()
API call no longer returns the package ID because there is no package ID to be
returned for some packages. (BZ#1048090)

• Due to an invalid character in the database query, adding a Red Hat erratum to

a custom channel resulted in an invalid character error. This update removes the
character from the query, and the error no longer occurs in the described
scenario. (BZ#1053436)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 requires 1GB of RAM for a successful installation,

but Satellite 5.6 provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 guests only 756MB of RAM
by default. As a consequence, the guest guest provisioning failed. This update
increases the amount of RAM given to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 guests to 1GB,
and guest provisioning now works correctly. (BZ#1058761)

In addition, this update ads the following enhancement:

• This update adds an API method for syncing the user-owned cloned errata in a

channel with their original, and makes the spacewalk-clone-by-date tool call the
method by default as a part of the cloning process. Previously, the cloned
errata were not modified with an updated package list when the satellite-sync
tool modified the original Red Hat errata, and the cloned erratum did not, under
certain circumstances, contain the same packages as the original erratum. The
new default behavior is more intuitive, but spacewalk-clone-by-date has
preserved the old behavior as an option, too. (BZ#905259)

All users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs and add this 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/site/articles/11258

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

Fixes

• BZ - 1058761 - RHEL7 RAM requirements

CVEs

(none)

References

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