RHBA-2014:0614 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated mariadb55 packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat
Software Collections 1.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

[Updated 6 June 2014]
This advisory has been updated with the correct version of the mariadb55
packages. This update does not change the packages in any way.

Description

MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that is
binary-compatible with MySQL.

The mariadb55 packages have been upgraded to upstream version 5.5.37, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
(BZ#1023010)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the MySQL server attempted to verify if the MySQL socket

existed, but did not take into consideration whether any processes were using
it. As a consequence, if the MySQL server terminated unexpectedly, the MySQL
socket was not reset after the reboot, and thus prevented the MySQL server from
restarting correctly. With this update, the MySQL server no longer attempts to
verify the existence of a MySQL socket when the socket is not being used by any
processes. As a result, the MySQL server can now be successfully restarted after
a crash occurs. (BZ#1037748)

• Previously, not all files in an RPM package were correctly owned by the

corresponding collection. As a consequence, when the mariadb55 Software
Collection was removed, some files remained in the /opt/rh/mariadb55/root/
directory. With this update, all files in the mariadb55 collection are owned
properly and no redundant files are left after the collection is removed.
(BZ#1079913)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• The Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) plug-in has been added to the

mariadb55 Software Collection. PAM allows a system to set up authentication
policies without the need to recompile programs to handle authentication. The
plug-in also includes a number of authentication features, such as enforcing
password expiration. (BZ#1019868)

Users of mariadb55 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 Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1019868 - [RFE] Please include PAM authentication plugin for MariaDB
• BZ - 1025280 - mariadb55-mariadb-server installation error: cannot touch ‘/var/log/mariadb55-mariadb/mariadb.log’
• BZ - 1042873 - Potential issues caused by non-namespaced RPM provides and libraries
• BZ - 1053393 - Use policycoreutils-python in meta package
• BZ - 1061444 - mariadb55 meta package should include LICENSE, README and mariadb55 man page files
• BZ - 1072958 - systemctl restart mariadb55-mariadb behaves randomly
• BZ - 1079973 - Man page has incorrect service name on rhel7

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)