RHBA-2017:0447 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Satellite 6.2 packages that fix several bugs are now available.

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:

• Dashboard performance improvements from 6.3 have been backported to 6.2.z. (BZ#1413361, BZ#1232877)
• Several upgrade issues have been addressed. (BZ#1420626, BZ#1419511, BZ#1418747, BZ#1387776, BZ#1404348)
• Multiple performance issues have been addressed in the UI and Hammer. (BZ#1399765, BZ#1393611, BZ#1395777, BZ#1383378)
• Provisioning on Atomic Host through a proxy has been fixed. (BZ#1406506, BZ#1366134)
• Red Hat Insights will now send emails to Satellite users (BZ#1403979)
• Several issues in Remote Execution have been addressed (BZ#1402432, BZ#1392948, BZ#1388696, BZ#1378915)
• The installer has been improved to support arbitrary configuration options. (BZ#1305782)
• Fixes for RHV 4.0 and VMware compute profiles are included (BZ#1393928, BZ#1394290)
• Several broken Hammer commands have been fixed (BZ#1420673, BZ#1023127, BZ#1372372)
• Multiple bugs around Content Management have been addressed (BZ#1329689, BZ#1414149, BZ#1388618, BZ#1388173, BZ#1385800, BZ#1371406, BZ#1291960, BZ#1405085, BZ#1355752, BZ#1346816)
• Several bugs around provisioning have been addressed (BZ#1403393, BZ#1412951, BZ#1406362, BZ#1386334, BZ#1335604)
• The katello-backup tool now correctly handles re-using the same target directory (BZ#1377636)
• Navigating to the products page from certain other pages would result in an error. This has been resolved. (BZ#1411800)
• Users can now search the audit log by type (BZ#1406175)
• Registration failures due to unexpected hardware facts have been addressed (BZ#1363749, BZ#1405614)
• Promotion emails were not being sent, and should now work (BZ#1369817)
• The subscription page will now make it apparent that the user should set up virt-who (BZ#1393544)

Users of Red Hat Satellite 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.

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 - 1023127 - hammer: Multibyte and Latin-1 Org names break list pagination
• BZ - 1232877 - Error accessing dashboard when user has filtered access to hosts
• BZ - 1243586 - 404 for puppet classes environments and documentation links
• BZ - 1291960 - updating katello-agent package via webui has undesired result
• BZ - 1329689 - list of packages on About page missing crucial entries
• BZ - 1333219 - view_subscription filter does not allow subscriptions to be viewed
• BZ - 1334863 - VDC guest subscriptions do not list any provided products and content
• BZ - 1335604 - Editing provisioning templates on Internet Explorer fails with Internal Server Error
• BZ - 1346816 - publishing content view with many repos sharing same parent dir might raise "mkdir(name, mode)\nOSError: [Errno 17] File exists:" for the parent dir
• BZ - 1355752 - content view publish may fail if 'publish via http' was changed to false on a repo
• BZ - 1369817 - Email notification fails for Satellite Promotion and Satellite Sync Summary
• BZ - 1374723 - [Improvement] prevent running pulp-manage-db when pulp workers are up
• BZ - 1377654 - Delete button works for primary interface
• BZ - 1378915 - Install Errata - Katello SSH Default contains incorrect syntax for job template
• BZ - 1383378 - Under certain situations, Post-sync actions always run.
• BZ - 1386334 - Searching Provisioning Templates results in error
• BZ - 1387383 - Usergroup Sync Using Wrong Base DN
• BZ - 1387776 - Unable to view activation keys in satellite web-ui as well as in hammer since upgrade
• BZ - 1388618 - Trying to delete a Puppet content view version throws the error " TypeError: Value (NilClass) '' is not any of: ForemanTasks::Concerns::ActionSubject"
• BZ - 1388696 - Failed to initialize command: Dynflow::ExecutionPlan::Steps::Error - undefined method `ip' for nil:NilClass
• BZ - 1393544 - [RFE] Enhance Satelltie 6 UI to make the need for virt-who apparent
• BZ - 1393611 - hammer erratum list command taking too much time to display erratum
• BZ - 1393928 - Support for RHEV 4.0 in Satellite 6.2 is missing certificate download
• BZ - 1394290 - Could not find virtual machine network interface matching <ip address>
• BZ - 1395777 - Pulp spend long time just to check metadata and say *nothing new* or to download a few packages
• BZ - 1399765 - Consumer GET call performance issue with large # of consumers and entitlements
• BZ - 1402432 - Prefer fqdn instead of IP when tracking if remote execution is enabled for the host
• BZ - 1403393 - bootdisk truncation of filenames with suffixes for ISO9660
• BZ - 1403979 - [RFE] Add Insights notification emails to Satellite
• BZ - 1404348 - pulp_rpm migration 0031 fails: cursor not found
• BZ - 1405085 - ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid on host registration
• BZ - 1405614 - System does not get registered because {"network.hostname-override":""} in /etc/rhsm/facts/katello.facts is empty due `hostname -f`
• BZ - 1406175 - audits API can't search on some types
• BZ - 1406362 - tftpboot file not updated when provisioning with more than one nic
• BZ - 1406506 - Network snippets missing from atomic kickstart
• BZ - 1411800 - Error while navigating to Products from the GPG keys page.
• BZ - 1412951 - Blacklist kms driver to prevent kexec issues
• BZ - 1413155 - [RFE] Include disk space check in foreman-debug
• BZ - 1413361 - Tracker bug for 6.2.8 dashboard enhancments
• BZ - 1414149 - published docker content views are missing docker tags
• BZ - 1418747 - Repo isn't auto publishing after syncing
• BZ - 1419511 - capsule-certs-generate overwrites /etc/httpd/conf.d/pulp.conf wrongfully on satellite
• BZ - 1420626 - Content host registration with satellite raises error: Couldn't find Katello::System without an ID
• BZ - 1420673 - hammer list sub-commands fail with 'comparison of Symbol with 80 failed'
• BZ - 1420843 - Unable to sync a yum repo - "global name 'rpm_parse' is not defined"
• BZ - 1428499 - add setting to change host name setting between fqdn and shortname

CVEs

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References

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