5.282. rhn-client-tools and yum-rhn-plugin

Bug Fixes

BZ#729342

When a client was set up to connect to a server using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and the validation of the server's SSL certificate failed, an SSLCertificateVerifyFailedError exception was raised and a traceback was written to the /var/log/up2date file. This update corrects the exception handling mechanism to ensure that a proper error message is displayed in this scenario.

BZ#735339

The previous version of yum-rhn-plugin did not properly clean its cache, which may have caused various misleading messages to be displayed during subsequent Yum operations. To prevent this behavior, this update ensures that yum-rhn-plugin cleans its cache properly.

BZ#744709

When using the firstboot application to register the system with RHN Classic, entering incorrect credentials previously resulted in a traceback. With this update, an explanatory error message is displayed in this situation.

BZ#745095

When a virtual host was registered with Red Hat Network Satellite and the user attempted to register a virtual guest, the rhn_register utility did not associate the guest with the virtual host. Consequent to this, the virtual host appeared to have no virtual guests. This update ensures that rhn_register correctly pairs the guest with the managed virtual host.

BZ#746983

When a client was banned due to abuse of service, an attempt to run the previous version of the rhn-channel utility failed with both a traceback and an error message. With this update, the utility now displays only the error message.

BZ#748876

Previously, running the rhnreg_ks utility with a relative path to the SSL certificate caused it to store this relative path in the configuration file. Consequently, an attempt to run any other utility that uses this configuration file from a different directory rendered such a utility unable to open the certificate. This update adapts rhnreg_ks to store an absolute path.

BZ#751893

The web user interface of Red Hat Network Satellite now displays the BIOS version of managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 clients, as expected.

BZ#768045

When Red Hat Subscription Manager was installed but the user decided to register the system with RHN Classic, Red Hat Subscription Manager incorrectly reported that the system in non-compliant. With this update, when the user registers a system with RHN Classic, the rhnreg_ks and rhn_register tools now notify Red Hat Subscription Manager over D-Bus.

BZ#771167

When the user attempted to register a system with RHN Classic and provided invalid credentials, the rhn_register utility reported an error at the very end of the registration process. This update adapts rhn_register to report invalid credentials immediately.

BZ#781421

Previously, the presence of Unicode characters in a localized error message caused an additional traceback to be displayed. With this update, error messages are encoded in UTF-8 before they are printed to standard error.

BZ#788903

Prior to this update, when the user disabled a channel in the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf configuration file, a subsequent update of the yum-rhn-plugin package re-enabled this channel. This update ensures that such configuration changes are persistent.

BZ#799926

Due to a new layout of the Python modules for Red Hat Subscription Manager, the firstboot application did not skip the login screen when the system was already registered. This update corrects this error.

BZ#809241

Due to an error in the list of required packages, an attempt to run the rhn-setup utility on a system without the newt-python package installed could fail with an ImportError. This update adds newt-python as a dependency of the rhn-client-tools package.

BZ#817567

Under certain circumstances, the rhn_check utility could incorrectly report an attempt to update already updated packages as failed. To prevent this, yum-rhn-plugin has been adapted to ensure that packages that are already updated are properly removed from the list of packages that are scheduled for an update.

BZ#735346

The rhn_check utility no longer displays debugging messages without a space after the do_call keyword.

BZ#751292, BZ#759786

When the network connection is reset by peer or a general network error occurs, yum-rhn-plugin now displays an explanatory error message and no longer fails with a traceback.

Enhancements

BZ#569790, BZ#749281, BZ#767679

The rhn-client-tools packages now support IPv6.

BZ#772070

The user interface of the firstboot application has been redesigned to improve the usability of the system registration screen.

Bug Fix

BZ#993105

The RHN Proxy did not work properly if separated from a parent by a slow enough network. Consequently, users who attempted to download larger repodata files and RPMs experienced timeouts. This update changes both RHN Proxy and Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHN Client to allow all communications to obey a configured timeout value for connections.