Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1401 - fence-virt bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

fence-virt bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated fence-virt packages that fix two bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The fence-virt packages provide a fencing agent for virtual machines, as well as a host agent that processes fencing requests.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the fence-virt utility in some case incorrectly returned a zero exit code when it detected an error in processing a request. With this update, the static analysis errors that caused this problem have been fixed, and fence-virt now returns appropriate error codes if it detects an error. (BZ#1125290)

  • Due to an incorrectly configured range of supported TCP and multicast ports, fence-virt did previously not work properly with certain ports. This update fixes the range of supported TCP and multicast ports, which prevents the problem form occurring. (BZ#1078197)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

  • When the fence-virt and fence-xvm utilities are invoked with the "-o status" parameter, they now print their status in a more comprehensible manner, as either "Status: ON" or "Status: OFF". (BZ#1020992)

Users of fence-virt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_646x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_646i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_646x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_646i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • fence-virt-0.2.3-19.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-19.el6.src.rpm
  • fence-virtd-serial-0.2.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-checkpoint-0.2.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-multicast-0.2.3-19.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-0.2.3-19.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-checkpoint-0.2.3-19.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-0.2.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-libvirt-0.2.3-19.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-multicast-0.2.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-serial-0.2.3-19.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virt-debuginfo-0.2.3-19.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-libvirt-0.2.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virt-debuginfo-0.2.3-19.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information