Issued:
2013-07-16
Updated:
2013-07-16

RHBA-2013:1077 - ovirt-node bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

ovirt-node bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated ovirt-node package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Description

The ovirt-node package provides the utilities and recipes used to create and configure the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO image.

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is only available for the Intel 64 and AMD64 architectures with virtualization extensions.

This update fixes these following bug:

  • The kernel ordering of /dev/sdX devices is not necessarily deterministic. When booting the Hypervisor using PXE with the storage_init parameter set to a /dev/sdX device it was therefore possible to accidentally delete data from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization storage domains.

Additional safe guards have been added to check that the device specified in the storage_init parameter does not contain a storage domain. Installation is blocked where this is the case. To use the storage_init parameter in a deterministic manner specify devices using the paths presented under /dev/mapper/ instead of paths of the form /dev/sdX. (BZ#980477)

  • The log rotation configuration stored in the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file was not correctly set up to rotate the /var/log/messages file. As a result the /var/log/messages file was deleted instead of rotated when the log rotation cron job ran. The /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file has been updated to correctly configure log rotation for the /var/log/messages file. (BZ#980481)

Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which corrects these issues and adds these enhancements.

This ovirt-node package is included in the rhev-hypervisor6 package associated with advisory RHSA-2013:1076:

This content is not included.https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1076.html

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 Virtualization6x86_64

Updated Packages

  • ovirt-node-tools-2.5.0-17.el6_4.8.noarch.rpm
  • ovirt-node-2.5.0-17.el6_4.8.src.rpm
  • ovirt-node-recipe-2.5.0-17.el6_4.8.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information