Chapter 4. Known Issues


The following are the known issues and workarounds found in RHN Satellite 5.4.
  • Due to architectural changes within the Taskomatic daemon for Satellite, the Task Engine Status page under the Admin tab is no longer available.
  • When upgrading to RHN Satellite 5.4, please upgrade the rhncfg-* packages on any client systems using configuration management. Older client tooling is not compatible with the system link (symlink) support added in this release.
  • There is a known issue with the rhncfg-manager tool when used for diff, download-channel and upload-channel functions. The rhncfg-manager tool fails to correctly track the SELinux context and can fail to report changes (diff) to context or reset the context of files managed within a Configuration Channel.
  • If you are installing RHN Satellite 5.4 with SELinux in enforcing mode, ensure that you have updated to newest selinux-policy-targeted package due to known incompatibilities with older (prior to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5) versions of the selinux-policy-targeted package.
  • The rhnpush process can timeout for extremely large rpms, even if the push did successfully finish.
  • Due to changes for SHA256 feature, old rhnpush clients are not compatible with RHN Satellite 5.4. When attempting to upload Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 compatible content, use the newest rhnpush to avoid generating errors.
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