RHBA-2015:2232 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated python-blivet package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The python-blivet package contains Blivet, a Python module for examining and modifying storage configuration.

The python-blivet packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.61.15, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1202877)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, an attempt to reinstall Red Hat Enterprise Linux on storage containing Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volume groups with duplicate names failed and an uninformative error message was returned. With this update, Blivet correctly detects LVM volume groups with duplicate names, and displays an error with suggestions on how to correct the problem before proceeding with the installation. (BZ#1198367)
• Before this update, the size of the ext4 file systems created with the Anaconda installation program was limited to 16 TiB, even though ext4 supports significantly larger file systems. With this update, the upper limit has been increased to 1 EiB. (BZ#1231049)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• The "--mkfsoptions" option is now available for the kickstart "part" command. It allows passing options to the mkfs.* command that is invoked with "part". As a result, it is possible precisely control the options used to create the file system. (BZ#1220898)

Users of python-blivet are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1069597 - blivet.reset() activates MD RAID on multipath devices
• BZ - 1163887 - shrinking partition to an absolutely minimum size results in an error
• BZ - 1166506 - anaconda-cleanup crash in blivet when run at end of iSCSI install
• BZ - 1178705 - Unable to create PV with custom dataalignment value
• BZ - 1181494 - Do not crash when creating small partitions
• BZ - 1194241 - zFCP LUN with non-system mount point is not brought online during boot
• BZ - 1234333 - Traceback when initializing blivet with MD RAID
• BZ - 1234454 - Incorrect mountpoint for lv with existing snapshot lv
• BZ - 1245201 - Multipath devices not displayed in GUI (filtered out because of reporting zero size)
• BZ - 1248476 - [FCoE] ixgbe/bnx2fc FCoE disk is added as local disk after adding in Anaconda GUI
• BZ - 1261559 - pyanaconda.bootloader.BootLoaderError: failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel or firmware bug.

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal