Issued:
2014-10-13
Updated:
2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1589 - 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 manual page for the fence_virt.conf file did not describe the relationship between socket path for fence_virtd and virtual machine serial socket path. This could cause confusions or misunderstandings. With this update, the description of "path" in the manual page has been extended to explain the aforementioned difference. (BZ#1014238)

  • Prior to this update, the fence-virt agent could not fence inactive virtual machines. As a consequence, the cluster became unresponsive because the fence_virtd daemon was unable to find the running domain. The underlying source code has been patched, and fence-virt now fences both active and inactive virtual machines. (BZ#1104740)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

  • With this update, the libvirt backend of the fence_virt daemon has been extended to support multiple KVM hypervisors. (BZ#914144)

  • With this update, fence-virt fencing using KVM serial ports instead of network multicast is supported for production use. (BZ#1054225)

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/site/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-virt-debuginfo-0.2.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-serial-0.2.3-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-serial-0.2.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-libvirt-0.2.3-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-0.2.3-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-0.2.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-libvirt-0.2.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virtd-checkpoint-0.2.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virt-debuginfo-0.2.3-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-multicast-0.2.3-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • fence-virt-0.2.3-18.el6.src.rpm
  • fence-virtd-checkpoint-0.2.3-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • fence-virtd-multicast-0.2.3-18.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information