RHEA-2019:2295 - 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 7.7 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 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 - 1311129 - [RFE] include sosreport command line options --all-logs and --log-size= in /etc/sos.conf
• BZ - 1591433 - Collect imgbased.log in sosreport
• BZ - 1592909 - The sosreport is missing logs under /var/log/containers/nova/
• BZ - 1597198 - no such option: -q
• BZ - 1619159 - Collect sudo configuration files
• BZ - 1630956 - skydive plugin traceback due to type conversion
• BZ - 1632251 - unpackaged false positives and eventual traceback
• BZ - 1635035 - Running sosreport on OCP cluster node fails with IndexError from kubernetes plugin trying to get namespaces
• BZ - 1635214 - Make plugin timeout configurable option
• BZ - 1639166 - pcp plugin for sosreport treats pmlogger binaries over 100MB as a file with string and corrupts it (be default)
• BZ - 1640141 - sosreport can't find /var/lib/config-data/puppet-generated/neutron/etc/neutron/plugin.ini
• BZ - 1640356 - sosreport executes ethtool commands on incorrect vlan device
• BZ - 1641144 - Collect opendaylight karaf logs from new directory
• BZ - 1656278 - sosreport collects only the tail of a postgresql dump
• BZ - 1656812 - rebase sos to 3.7 in RHEL7.7
• BZ - 1664464 - Extend existing plugins for CloudForms product support
• BZ - 1666321 - Sos-report does not capture cri-o information
• BZ - 1673784 - postgresql plugin support to PG10
• BZ - 1683877 - sosreport timed out with collecting /var/lib/neutron with more than 800000 files in openstack_neutron plugin
• BZ - 1690273 - Making "docker system df" optional
• BZ - 1692897 - sosreport should not modify OpenShift projects by default
• BZ - 1697813 - Plugin timeouts must be higher than command timeouts within the plugin
• BZ - 1697854 - sos: Incorrect default variables in postgresql and mysql plugins
• BZ - 1702802 - sosreport is missing /var/lib/mistral/overcloud/ansible.log
• BZ - 1706060 - Include native vdsm plugin in sosreport
• BZ - 1711305 - certificate for qpid-stat in katello plugin depends on Satellite/katello version

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index