RHBA-2015:1944 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spacewalk-schema, spacewalk-java, spacewalk-backend, spacewalk-search,
pyliblzma and spacewalk-utils packages that fix several bugs 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:

• Prior to this update, the Satellite web UI incorrectly displayed fully updated

systems as still having unapplied errata. This behavior has been addressed, and
systems now report correct errata status. (BZ#1261204)

• Previously, subscribing multiple systems to a subscription channel from the

"Target Systems" tab was very slow and could lead to connection timeouts. With
this update, the recalculation of applicable errata for affected servers is
performed asynchronously after subscription, which greatly speeds up the
subscription process. (BZ#1253470)

• This update contains a backport from Satellite upstream packages required by

the pyliblzma package that has been recently added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6. (BZ#1109393)

• Previously, the spacewalk-reposync command did not handle the .xz compressed

files correctly. Support for the LZMA alogrithm has been added and
spacewalk-reposync now correctly handles .xz compressed files such as the EPEL7
comps file. (BZ#1229482)

• This update fixes compression errors in spacewalk-repo-sync for Red Hat

Satellite 5.6 on RHEL 5 when using a repository compressed using xz.
(BZ#1232941)

• Cloning a channel with all errata and child channels failed with the following

message:

xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for localhost/rpc/api: 503 Service
Temporarily Unavailable>

This bug has been fixed, and channel cloning now works correctly. (BZ#1242887)

• Prior to this update, the spacewalk-clone-by-date command used with the -d or
• z option included errata newer than the specified date when creating a clone

channel. This bug has been fixed, and spacewalk-clone-by-date now filters errata
correctly. (BZ#126531)

• This update fixes spacewalk-search indexes growth in situations where frequent

changes of hardware occurred. Spacewalk-search indexes size now should not grow
beyond expected sizes of indexes. (BZ#1199342)

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs.

Solution

Application of this errata involves updating the database schema.

For general instructions on the database schema upgrade, consult the following
document first: https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/273633

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied. To apply this erratum, take the following
steps:

• Shut down Red Hat Satellite by running the following command as root:

rhn-satellite stop

• Backup the database. For embedded or managed database variants, please consult

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 documentation. For an external database, consult your
database administrator.

• Upgrade the errata packages. Details on how to apply this update are available

at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

• Update the database schema using the spacewalk-schema-upgrade command. To do

so, run as root:

spacewalk-schema-upgrade

This process will update your database schema to the latest version. The
spacewalk-schema-upgrade command will inform you about the results of the
upgrade and exact locations of schema upgrade log files.

• Restart Red Hat Satellite by running the following as root:

rhn-satellite start

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

CVEs

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References

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