RHBA-2014:1384 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated subscription-manager packages that fix numerous bugs and add various
enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The subscription-manager packages provide programs and libraries to allow users
to manage subscriptions and yum repositories from the Red Hat entitlement
platform.

These updated subscription-manager packages include numerous bug fixes and
enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory.
Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Technical Notes for
information on the most significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Technical_Notes/subsription-manager.html#RHBA-2014-1384

Users of subscription-manager 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/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 820749 - channel-cert-mapping.txt is missing a mapping for product "Red Hat Developer Toolset"
• BZ - 966696 - Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (rhev-3.0) 150.pem product certs are missing from subscription-manager-migration-data
• BZ - 1019981 - OpenStack-4.0 rhel-x86_64-server-6-ost-4 channel maps are missing
• BZ - 1019986 - OpenShift-2.0 rhel-x86_64-server-6-ose-2 channel maps are missing
• BZ - 1021661 - Red Hat Storage Management Console rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhs-rhsc-2.1 channel maps are missing
• BZ - 1030638 - Increase Default Subscription Manager GUI Window Size
• BZ - 1039577 - [RFE] Simplify repository dialog's Gpgcheck override mechanism
• BZ - 1048530 - [RFE] Missing migration paths and broken handling in rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm
• BZ - 1049037 - subscription-manager-migration should require subscription-manager-migration-data
• BZ - 1058383 - Scrolling using keyboard in All Available Subscriptions does not visually scroll
• BZ - 1061923 - remove trailing period from privacy URL
• BZ - 1062353 - rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm confusing prompt account name
• BZ - 1067035 - proposed About dialog changes that are more translation friendly
• BZ - 1070388 - register fails with password containing special characters
• BZ - 1096777 - bad URI error while trying to remove subscriptions using subscription-manager --serial <serial>
• BZ - 1097208 - rhsmcertd service is failing to update the certs and failing to log the error in /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log
• BZ - 1097536 - list --avail --match-installed filter is broken
• BZ - 1104158 - subscription manager version displays "subscription management server:" when the system is not registered to any server
• BZ - 1107810 - help message for subscription-manager identity --force
• BZ - 1108944 - SAM 1.4 doesn't provide channel-mapping data for RHEL7 channels
• BZ - 1109813 - please update python-rhsm to 1.10.10
• BZ - 1110271 - incorrect error handling: 'exceptions.ValueError' object has no attribute 'msg'
• BZ - 1110863 - subscription-manager-migration-data for rhel6.6 needs rhel6.6 product certs
• BZ - 1112282 - "subscription-manager-plugin" install fails with dependency error on rhel6.6
• BZ - 1112326 - typo in rhsm.log path when loading facts from file
• BZ - 1114126 - container mode message should go to stderr
• BZ - 1114717 - subscription-manager list --no-overlap needs a second look (both GUI and CLI)
• BZ - 1115046 - subscription-manager-migration-data doesn't contain the rhel-6-server-extras-rpms data used for RHEL-7 in-place upgrades
• BZ - 1115499 - [RFE] Allow users to enable X and disable all in the same line
• BZ - 1118755 - Typos in subscription-manager(8) man page
• BZ - 1120431 - Enabling the extras repo immediately causes 403 Forbidden errors for all repos
• BZ - 1121251 - rhsm-debug system does not bash-complete the new "--no-subscriptions" option
• BZ - 1121272 - subscription-manager repos --enable=<REPOID> FAILS to enable the repo
• BZ - 1122772 - yum repolist does not inform "This system is not yet registered" when the system is unregistered.
• BZ - 1124685 - Fail to get "rules-version" and "candlepin version" when unregister from SAM server
• BZ - 1125132 - label is registering when attaching subscription in firstboot
• BZ - 1126404 - subscription-manager-migration reports Systems Engine in CLI and not Satellite 6
• BZ - 1126724 - help message for serverurl and baseurl
• BZ - 1127884 - rhel-x86_64-server-6-ost-(5|foreman) channel maps are missing from channel-cert-mapping.txt
• BZ - 1127903 - rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3.5 channel maps are missing from channel-cert-mapping.txt
• BZ - 1128061 - subscription-manager shows exception and error message when unregister from SAM server
• BZ - 1129434 - OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 channel mappings missing for rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm
• BZ - 1129480 - subscription-manager register --activationkey fails to provide authentication to /owner/$id/environments
• BZ - 1129948 - RHEV 3.4 channel mappings missing for rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm
• BZ - 1130637 - rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm fails on RHEL6 Client with "TypeError: isfile() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)"
• BZ - 1131213 - rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm throws gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
• BZ - 1132071 - [RFE] rhsm-debug system should also collect /etc/pki/product-default/
• BZ - 1134963 - subscrption-manager release --list fails on rhel66 against cdn.redhat.com with a traceback error
• BZ - 1135621 - subscription-manager-gui should not display a /etc/pki/product-"default" installed product cert when the same id is already in /etc/pki/product

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.6_Technical_Notes/subsription-manager.html#RHBA-2014-1384