RHBA-2014:1215 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rhn-client-tools packages that fix several bugs are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Red Hat Network Client Tools provide programs and libraries that allow a system
to receive software updates from Red Hat Network.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Red Hat Network Client Tools did not count the CPU socket information on

certain systems properly. With this update, rhn-client-tools parse the
/proc/cpuinfo file correctly and thus provide the correct CPU socket information
for all systems. (BZ#1093157)

• The error logging module did not correctly determine sub-classes of YUM

errors, causing such errors to throw a traceback rather than being correctly
logged or reported on the command line. This update ensures that all errors are
logged and reported properly by correcting the error inheritance structure.
(BZ#751294)

• The rhn-client-tools sub-package did not correctly mark itself as conflicting

with old versions of the rhn-virtualization-host package, which allowed the
rhn-client-tools to be installed on the system with such an old package. As a
consequence, the rhn-profile-sync utility returned an "exceptions.TypeError:
refresh() takes no arguments (1 given)" traceback when it was run. With this
update, the conflicting package versions are correctly marked in the
rhn-client-tools spec file, which prevents installations of incompatible
packages. (BZ#919432)

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 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 - 751294 - yum does not write to stderr raised exception by plugin, which inherit from YumBaseError.
• BZ - 919432 - rhn-profile-sync throws "exceptions.TypeError: refresh() takes no arguments (1 given)" due to code in rhn-virtualization-host
• BZ - 1093157 - rhn-client-tools does not properly count CPU socket information

CVEs

(none)

References

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