RHBA-2014:1195 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated system-config-network packages that fix numerous bugs are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

System-config-network is the user interface of the network configuration tool,
supporting Ethernet, Wireless, TokenRing, ADSL, ISDN and PPP.

These updated system-config-network packages include numerous bug fixes. Space
precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.11_Technical_Notes/index.html

All users of system-config-network are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which provide numerous bug fixes.

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 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 445958 - can not start the ipw3945 driver to monitor mode
• BZ - 452446 - bugs while configuring wireless networkoing
• BZ - 452776 - system-config-network does not support configurations using bonding
• BZ - 474515 - Service network restart crashes
• BZ - 514534 - system-config-network gui assigns wrong DEVICE for virtual interfaces
• BZ - 516496 - system-config-network lets you save data that crash it while parsing
• BZ - 656529 - Unhandled exception for Network GUI
• BZ - 679000 - /etc/hosts file shoulde be updated when changing hostname by system-config-network
• BZ - 765727 - [ja_JP] Help document and some strings are unlocalized of Network Configuration window.
• BZ - 791335 - Initscripts sys-unconfig does not populate ifcfg-ethX files
• BZ - 805806 - system-config-network crashed with python UnicodeDecodeError if use LANG=ru_RU.utf8
• BZ - 825767 - system-config-network-tui has a missing dependency on dbus-python
• BZ - 919656 - Error on run setup.
• BZ - 950988 - /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhpl/genClass.py:217:_objToStr:UnicodeEncodeError
• BZ - 955310 - TBf6c835f4 NCHardwareList.py:482:save:AttributeError: HwWireless instance has no attribute 'type'

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.11_Technical_Notes/index.html