Issued:
2013-02-20
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0419 - fence-virt bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

fence-virt bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated fence-virt packages that fix two bugs and add two enhancements 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, which processes fencing requests.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the fence_virt man page contained incorrect information in the "SERIAL/VMCHANNEL PARAMETERS" section. With this update, the man page has been corrected. (BZ#761228)

  • Previously, the fence_virtd daemon returned an incorrect error code to the fence_virt agent when the virt domain did not exist. Consequently, the fence_node utility occasionally failed to detect fencing. With this update, the error codes have been changed and the described error no longer occurs. (BZ#853927)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

  • The "delay" (-w) option has been added to the fence_virt and fence_xvm fencing agents. The delay option can be used, for example, as a method of preloading a winner in a fence race in a CMAN cluster. (BZ#823542)

  • With this update, the documentation of the "hash" parameter in the fence_virt.conf file has been improved to notify that hash is the weakest hashing algorithm allowed for client requests. (BZ#843104)

All users of fence-virt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/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-virtd-serial-0.2.3-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-serial-0.2.3-13.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virt-debuginfo-0.2.3-13.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-multicast-0.2.3-13.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-0.2.3-13.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-libvirt-0.2.3-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-0.2.3-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-multicast-0.2.3-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-13.el6.src.rpm
  • fence-virtd-libvirt-0.2.3-13.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virt-debuginfo-0.2.3-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-checkpoint-0.2.3-13.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-checkpoint-0.2.3-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-13.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information