RHEA-2011:1078 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

New subscription-manager packages that provide GUI and command line tools for
the new Subscription Manager system are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.

Description

The new Subscription Management tooling will allow users to understand the
specific products which have been installed on their machines, and the specific
subscriptions which their machines are consuming.

This enhancement update adds new subscription-manager packages to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5. (BZ#668616)

All users should install these newly-released packages, which add this
enhancement.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 670798 - Initscript is placed in wrong directory
• BZ - 674652 - Subscription Manager Leaves Broken Yum Repos After Unregister
• BZ - 683553 - subscription-manager-gui is displaying unlimited pools as -1
• BZ - 693527 - missing some translation in usage help string
• BZ - 693834 - compliance icon is broken on el5
• BZ - 693896 - subscription-manager does not always reload dbus scripts automatically
• BZ - 694154 - subscription-manager fails "danging symlink" rpmdiff test
• BZ - 694662 - the whitespace in the title line of man subscription-manager-gui is completely consumed
• BZ - 694837 - Can't unsubscribe from imported cert
• BZ - 694839 - pango markup is not rendering on rhel5
• BZ - 694842 - error messages do not get populated during firstboot
• BZ - 694851 - rhsm-compliance-icon doesn't start automatically in 5.7
• BZ - 694877 - yum plugins for product-id and subscription-manager are not loading
• BZ - 695234 - Incorrect end date displayed in the subscription manager
• BZ - 695788 - firstboot -r with installed subscription-manager-firstboot produces traceback
• BZ - 696171 - Ugly error dialogue when inputting invalid combination of username and password
• BZ - 696436 - [ko_KR] GUI translation needs to complete
• BZ - 696674 - Rhsmcertd service is not updating cert in ?/etc/pki/entitlement location?
• BZ - 696679 - Subscription-manager command displays ?command not found ? for non root user
• BZ - 696791 - No such file or directory: '/sys/devices/system/cpu//cpu1/topology/physical_package_id'
• BZ - 696947 - wrong webqa url is present in rhsm.conf for rhel5.7
• BZ - 697908 - regression in subscription-manager unregister
• BZ - 697965 - Cannot see installed subscription
• BZ - 700058 - Displaying previous imported cert in cert browser option
• BZ - 700073 - Background is click able while handling Import certificate dialog box
• BZ - 700838 - firstboot is skipping the "Subscription Manager" panel after the "Entitlement Registration" panel.
• BZ - 700952 - traceback in rhsm.log occurs when rhsmcertd triggers and no consumer is registered
• BZ - 700958 - Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
• BZ - 701263 - local variable 'dmiinfo' referenced before assignment
• BZ - 702026 - confusing warning message when rhsm-icon runs twice
• BZ - 702072 - Cannot proceed with activating in Subscription Manager firstboot
• BZ - 702075 - subscription manager installs broken certs
• BZ - 702078 - firstboot fails after initial install on HP DL360 Gen8
• BZ - 703491 - firstboot does not block invalid users
• BZ - 703626 - product-id yum plugin is not run on 5.7
• BZ - 703920 - dates do not appear in contract selection dialog
• BZ - 704305 - translation is needed for "Invalid date format: Please re-enter a valid date. Example:"
• BZ - 705236 - "rm: cannot remove `/var/run/subsys/rhsm': Is a directory" message during system boot for RHEL5.7
• BZ - 705445 - subscribing to more than one product throws error
• BZ - 706127 - Subscription Assistant too large for firstboot
• BZ - 706552 - Wrong DMI structures length: 3263 bytes announced, structures occupy 3265 bytes.
• BZ - 707041 - date picker in subscription-manager-gui does not work
• BZ - 707292 - cpu socket detection fails on some 5.7 i386 boxes
• BZ - 707313 - rhel5 product id is being deleted upon first package install after subscribing to rhel5 subscription
• BZ - 707503 - register --autosubscribe doesn't subscribe
• BZ - 708095 - the default date string fails the date picker's valid date string test for LANG=or_IN.utf8

CVEs

(none)

References

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