RHEA-2024:8840 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for rhel-system-roles is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

The rhel-system-roles package includes a collection of Ansible roles and modules that provide a stable and consistent configuration interface for managing multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Bug Fix(es):

• Setup imuxsock using rhel-system-roles.logging causing an error EL8 (JIRA:RHEL-37550)
• fix: Set user.cfg path to /boot/grub2/ on EL 9 UEFI [rhel-8] (JIRA:RHEL-45711)
• redhat.rhel_system_roles.podman fails to configure and run containers with podman rootless using different username and groupname. [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58460)
• package rhel-system-roles.noarch does not provide docs for ansible-doc [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58465)
• rhel-system-role.storage is not idempotent [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58469)
• second SSHD service broken [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58473)
• [RFE] Add the umask settings or enable a variable in linux-system-roles.logging [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58477)
• redhat.rhel_system_roles.logging role fails to process logging_outputs: of type: "custom" [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58481)
• RFE - system-roles - logging: Add truncate options for local file inputs [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58485)
• System Roles: No module documentation [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58489)
• fix: Sets domain name lower case in realmd.conf section header [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58494)
• fix: use correct user for cancel linger file name [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58498)
• fix: do not use become for changing hostdir ownership, and expose subuid/subgid info [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58503)
• Create podman secret when skip_existing=True and it does not exist [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58507)
• fix: grab name of network to remove from quadlet file [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58511)
• cockpit install all wildcard match does not work in newer el9 [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58515)
• feat: Allow initrd configuration to be skipped [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58519)
• fix: proper cleanup for networks; ensure cleanup of resources [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58525)
• bootloader role tests do not work on ostree [rhel-8.10.z] (JIRA:RHEL-58917)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, 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 IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• RHEL-37550 - Setup imuxsock using rhel-system-roles.logging causing an error EL8
• RHEL-45711 - fix: Set user.cfg path to /boot/grub2/ on EL 9 UEFI [rhel-8]

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)