RHBA-2016:1643 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Users upgrading from Satellite 6.1 to 6.2 have experienced issues completing the upgrade. This errata includes some critical fixes to getting Satellite 6.1 upgraded to 6.2.

Description

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to
configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public
Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs
provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating
environments.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• A status check during the pulp upgrade was leaving open pipes which was causing message bus errors during the upgrade. The status check was fixed to not leave the extra cruft. (BZ#1361196)
• The Dashboard was erroring with a nil:NilClass error after the upgrade. The dashboard widgets have been updated to handle impartial data. (BZ#1361793)
• Certain naming of hypervisors were causing the migration of content hosts to hosts to fail during the upgrade. The migration code is now more aggressive to check for this type of data. (BZ#1364175)
• Having a proxy set on a machine was causing the upgrades to fail. The upgrade logic was improved to handle the case with the proxy set. (BZ#1365542)
• Red Hat Access Insights was failing to connect to the customer portal after an upgrade. Upgraded customers can now use this service. (BZ#1365590)
• Duplicate activation key assignments to a host were causing upgrades to error. The upgrade code now accounts for this case. (BZ#1366629)
• An upgraded 6.2.1 machine was still showing itself as 6.2.0. (BZ#1367495)

When upgrading from Satellite 6.1 to 6.2 the upgrade will fail during the execution of 'satellite-installer --upgrade' or will cause exceptions on the Dashboard upon logging in.

Solution

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

To update this system to include these fixes, ensure your system has access to the latest Red Hat packages. For instructions on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Then re-run the installer to complete the upgrade:

# satellite-installer --scenario satellite --upgrade

or

# satellite-installer --scenario capsule --upgrade

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 6.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 6.2 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.2 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1361196 - Upgrade to 6.2 is failing due to Pulp message bus connection issue
• BZ - 1361793 - Dashboard gives undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass
• BZ - 1364175 - update_subscription_facet_backend_data step fails on 6.2 upgrade
• BZ - 1365542 - Upgrades fail if a proxy is set on the system
• BZ - 1366629 - Satellite upgrade fails with "duplicate key value violates unique constraint" error
• BZ - 1367495 - Version string still indicates 6.2.0 on version 6.2.1

CVEs

(none)

References

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