RHBA-2020:3866 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for subscription-manager is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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 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 Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• 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 - 1507030 - Subscription-manager returns "System certificates corrupted. Please reregister." when listing available subscriptions
• BZ - 1520648 - Subscription manager ignores variants of locale
• BZ - 1525238 - yum plugin for productid neglects to remove HTB product cert from /etc/pki/product/ because it is tagged as a provider of "rhel-7"
• BZ - 1527396 - subscription-manager-cockpit : Throws Error: Missing username or password error even when you try to register with invalid activation key
• BZ - 1535974 - subscription-manager-cockpit: Unable to register from cockpit UI using custom url
• BZ - 1569491 - rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm should try to resolve product ID collisions detected from subscription-manager-migration-data
• BZ - 1657171 - errors in subscription-manager post install script in SLES
• BZ - 1660883 - Missleading error on enable repo if the system is not registered
• BZ - 1688702 - 'subscription-manager repos --enable/disable=' to work offline
• BZ - 1694109 - subscription-manager-migration-data for RHEL7.8 needs RHEL7.8 product certs (not RHEL7.6 certs)
• BZ - 1702753 - subscription-manager cockpit: registration via cockpit to an org with "contentAccessMode"="org_environment" is broken
• BZ - 1725525 - [ALL LANG][RHSM CLI] Unlocalized message in service-level module.
• BZ - 1739695 - [RFE] Need an easy way to see when servers were last rebooted from Satellite 6, This lastboot information was available in Satellite 5
• BZ - 1763271 - Do not list installed products with "Not Subscribed" status when the registration is to an org with contentAccessMode:org_environment
• BZ - 1771921 - Package profiles sends too early when registering a client
• BZ - 1775714 - rhsmd process never exits
• BZ - 1789457 - subscription-manager strips content from exception messages
• BZ - 1796088 - [RFE]: subscription-manager refresh needs a light version
• BZ - 1796091 - [RFE] Collect AWS Instance id in the subscription-manager facts
• BZ - 1803783 - [RHEL/Bug] log rotation of rhsm.log not correctly handled
• BZ - 1803794 - /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd gives error sleep: missing operand
• BZ - 1803841 - Failed "Specfile dist Usage Test" for subscription-manager-migration-data-2.0.50-1.el7
• BZ - 1816926 - [7.9 regression] `subscription-manager attach --auto` fails the first time against candlepin server
• BZ - 1818932 - Ensure "Simple Content Access" is used in CLI
• BZ - 1821830 - Registration fails with a message "Restlib' object has no attribute '_get_cert_key_list'"
• BZ - 1822749 - subscription-manager-migration-data for RHEL7.9 needs RHEL7.9 product certs (not RHEL7.8 certs)
• BZ - 1823523 - /usr/libexec/rhsmd throws ImportError: No module named psutil
• BZ - 1827711 - /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd fails to recognize rhsmd.processtimeout configuration
• BZ - 1830994 - Warning message printed by subscription-manager yum plugin contains line break and quotation marks
• BZ - 1831104 - When in Simple Content Access mode, subscription-manager should not complain that subscriptions aren't attached
• BZ - 1834792 - traceback while registering , unregistering and importing certs
• BZ - 1837244 - -%{RELEASE}" as well as the ".el7 is missing from the subscription-manager version report
• BZ - 1838012 - rhsmcertd will update the syspurpose to the Satellite/RHSM server on every certCheck even there is no change
• BZ - 1849074 - subscription-manager is failing to collect the insights_id fact

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index