RHEA-2018:3144 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for sos is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The sos package contains a set of utilities that gather information from system hardware, logs, and configuration files. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of sos are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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 for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 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 - 1183244 - sosreport tracebacks with memory error with huge system journall
• BZ - 1389806 - Please include more files from the /sys/block tree in sosreport
• BZ - 1474976 - RFE - sosreport should collect more about rear, specifically /etc/rear/* & /var/log/rear/*
• BZ - 1511487 - [abrt] [faf] sos: _write_checksum(): /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py killed by TypeError
• BZ - 1539784 - [RFE] Improve creation time for sosreport by using multiple cores on archiving process
• BZ - 1541100 - SOS report should collect Octavia info
• BZ - 1547544 - Include ovirt-provider-ovn in sosreport tool
• BZ - 1549503 - Python global name 'FileNotFoundError' is not defined
• BZ - 1549521 - rebase sos to 3.6 in RHEL7.6
• BZ - 1550471 - [RHEL-7.5] sos only collect info from the first InfiniBand HCA port
• BZ - 1560845 - sosreport does not collect openvswtich container
• BZ - 1570519 - Collect install-undercloud.log for a containerized undercloud
• BZ - 1570523 - openstack/undercloud: include /var/log/heat-launcher/*
• BZ - 1573907 - Backport docker plugin from upstream sos
• BZ - 1580989 - [RFE] Add watchdog plugin for sosreport
• BZ - 1594327 - allow automatic encryption of the sosreport archive
• BZ - 1596494 - Change the detection of CDS for RHUI 3
• BZ - 1597532 - "AttributeError: module 'stat' has no attribute 'ISBLK'" seen on ppc64le
• BZ - 1600158 - RFE: please add rhv-log-collector-analyzer plugin into sos
• BZ - 1608384 - sosreport does not sanitize all parts of an archive name causing errors
• BZ - 1609135 - ceph plugin should not collect /var/lib/ceph/tmp/*mnt*
• BZ - 1616030 - [supportability] sos does not properly collect etcd/kuberneties and openshift data with 3.10 ga.
• BZ - 1623070 - (s390x only) sos skips collecting random data due to pipe returncode None
• BZ - 1624043 - symlinks not copied when directory of the same name created automatically before
• BZ - 1626159 - sosreport on any atomic host raises AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'opts'

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index