Issued:
2009-12-01
Updated:
2009-12-01

RHBA-2009:1623 - conga bug fix update

Synopsis

conga bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated conga packages that fix a regression introduced between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 are now available.

Description

The Conga project is a management system for remote workstations. It consists of luci, a secure web-based front-end, and ricci, a secure daemon that dispatches incoming messages to the underlying management modules.

This update applies the following bug fix:

  • the behavior of the virsh command changed between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, non-root users must add a "--read-only" flag to virsh commands for them to work correctly. The ricci component of conga runs the "virsh nodeinfo" command to determine whether a node can host a Virtual Machine service and it does so as a non-root user.

As a consequence, when run under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, running this command returned no information and the luci front-end did not provide an "Add a virtual machine service" option to Services in the Cluster tab for clusters that were expected to offer such services. With this update, ricci now runs a "virsh nodeinfo --readonly" command, in line with the changed behavior, and the web-based front end will provide options to add virtual machine services as expected. (BZ#537209)

All conga users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support5.4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support5.4ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support5.4ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support5.4i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI5i386

Updated Packages

  • luci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.ia64.rpm
  • ricci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
  • ricci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm
  • conga-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.src.rpm
  • ricci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.ppc.rpm
  • luci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
  • luci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.ppc.rpm
  • luci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm
  • ricci-0.12.2-6.el5_4.1.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information