Issued:

2009-11-23

Updated:

2010-01-05

RHBA-2009:1598 - cman bug fix update

Synopsis

cman bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cman packages that resolve several issues are now available.

[Updated 4 Jan 2009] This update provides improved descriptions of both bug fixes included in this advisory, and especially the description for bug 529712. The packages included in this revised update have not been changed in any way from those included in the original advisory.

Description

The Cluster Manager (cman) utility provides user-level services for managing a Linux cluster.

These updated cman packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• when using device-mapper-multipath devices, registrations were only sent to the active path, which meant that, in the event of path failure, the node would be unable to access the device via the secondary path or paths because the device would not be registered with the secondary path(s). With this update, the presence of device-mapper-multipath devices is detected correctly, the right paths are discovered, and each path is registered, including secondary paths. (BZ#529712)

• when running the /etc/init.d/scsi_reserve init script to check for errors, such as an incorrect cluster.conf configuration, among others, upon finding an error the script did not print "[FAILED]" to standard output, as is convention for system services which encounter startup errors. With this update, the scsi_reserve init script has been fixed so that it prints "[FAILED]" to standard output when an error is encountered, and "[OK]" otherwise. Any errors encountered are logged to the system log. (BZ#530400)

All users of cman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.ppc64.rpm
• cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.ppc.rpm
• cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.s390x.rpm
• cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.i386.rpm
• cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.ia64.rpm
• cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.x86_64.rpm
• cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.s390.rpm
• cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.src.rpm
• cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.s390x.rpm
• cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.ppc.rpm
• cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.ia64.rpm
• cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.x86_64.rpm
• cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.i386.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 529712
• This content is not included.BZ - 530400

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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