RHBA-2020:4460 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for subscription-manager is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 8.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.3 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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1632283 - [RFE] subscription-manager and syspurpose should warn when setting a role, addon, usage, or SLA not available for the organization.
• BZ - 1634023 - [RFE] - Provide a way to list the valid syspurpose values for end user
• BZ - 1657269 - tmpfiles snippet needs updated path
• BZ - 1665022 - Syspurpose commands should display the same message as subscription-manager when there is conflict in system purpose values between server and client
• BZ - 1694811 - traceback encountered by subscription-manager service-level --list when bad proxy is configured in rhsm.conf
• BZ - 1700441 - With no /etc/yum.repos.d no repo file is created after successful registration & attach, no log message or error
• BZ - 1708939 - dnf log is full of errors from deprecated variables in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo
• BZ - 1708948 - OSPP profile on install gives "Failed to synchronize cache for repo" errors on attempted dnf upgrade on freshly-subscribed install
• BZ - 1713626 - New configuration "disable_system_repos=1" in /etc/dnf/plugins/subscription-manager.conf is not working as expected
• BZ - 1719697 - cockpit: The check for detecting whether a proxy should be used is wrong during attaching
• BZ - 1719709 - cockpit: "Oops" when connection to D-Bus fails
• BZ - 1751200 - subscription-manager-cockpit: UI make it look like you need both username+password and activation key
• BZ - 1761566 - [RFE] Collect kernel patch version version in facts
• BZ - 1774187 - Log level changes don't take effect until the rhsm.service is restarted
• BZ - 1780028 - [RFE] Remove rhsmd from RHEL 8
• BZ - 1794826 - [RFE]: subscription-manager refresh needs a light version
• BZ - 1796986 - [RFE] Collect AWS Instance id in the subscription-manager facts
• BZ - 1803951 - Rebase subscription-manager component to the latest upstream branch for RHEL 8.3
• BZ - 1804454 - the "virt-uuid" fact on a RHEL8.2 aarch64 server is missing despite reports from virt-what and dmidecode
• BZ - 1815624 - When in Simple Content Access mode, subscription-manager should not complain that subscriptions aren't attached
• BZ - 1820267 - Ensure "Simple Content Access" is used in CLI
• BZ - 1820534 - [candlepin, subscription-manager, syspurpose] RHEL 8.3 Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1821747 - Any subscription-manager command is terminated, when /etc/rhsm/syspurpose directory does not exist
• BZ - 1827708 - /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd fails to recognize rhsmd.processtimeout configuration
• BZ - 1838413 - SLA that is passed during register with --auto-attach is ignored/not set on the system
• BZ - 1838423 - Traceback while trying to use subscription-manager to list and set a release
• BZ - 1838670 - non-root user : host subscription contents are not available on containers
• BZ - 1838690 - -%{RELEASE}" as well as the ".el8 is missing from the subscription-manager version report
• BZ - 1839199 - after the removal of rhsmd on RHEL-8.3, config and man page cleanup tasks remain
• BZ - 1840364 - ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.1185298:/EntitlementStatus: dbus.exceptions.DBusException
• BZ - 1840859 - subscription-manager repo-override --remove-all is failing to remove overrides from redhat.repo
• BZ - 1841600 - subscription-manager-cockpit : when you register with an activationkey that has some pools/subscriptions on it, entitlements dont get synced down to the system
• BZ - 1841601 - subscription-manager fails when locale is not English
• BZ - 1842474 - Unable to set any of the syspurpose value neither using syspurpose tool nor with subscription-manager syspurpose modules
• BZ - 1845399 - List available subscription with noproxy and ondate options failed for datetime.datetime is not JSON serializable
• BZ - 1847636 - subscription-manager: TypeError: __init__() takes 1 positional argument but 4 were given when registering in intial-setup-graphical
• BZ - 1848636 - subscription-manager is failing to collect the insights_id fact
• BZ - 1849088 - rhsmcertd will update the syspurpose to the Satellite/RHSM server on every certCheck even there is no change
• BZ - 1850993 - Wrong button order in registration dialog
• BZ - 1855893 - full_refresh_on_yum=1 does not appear to update the repo-overrides in redhat.repo after a yum transaction
• BZ - 1857100 - subscription-manager role --list shows empty string in list of valid values for role
• BZ - 1858296 - rhsmcertd checkin ignoring cache and POSTing package profiles
• BZ - 1859532 - Proxy configuration in /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file is not considered by subscription-manager role,usage or addons module
• BZ - 1861255 - Traceback when there is a typo proxy username/password in /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file
• BZ - 1862408 - unexpected message "CACHED_SYSPURPOSE: /var/lib/rhsm/cache/syspurpose.json"
• BZ - 1862415 - unexpected 'displayName' after a consumer has been deleted on the server side; expected a graceful GoneException
• BZ - 1862419 - The 'repo-override' command is not supported by the server.
• BZ - 1862425 - unexpected 'Service level preference not set' after a successful 'service_level_agreement set to "Premium".'
• BZ - 1868734 - system purpose attributes are not set on the system when you register the system with an activation key that has all the system purpose attributes set on the key
• BZ - 1869725 - Customers are getting intermittent errors " Server error attempting a PUT to /subscription/consumers/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/profiles returned status 502" while registering servers to customer portal

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index