Issued:
2014-10-14
Updated:
2014-10-14

RHBA-2014:1627 - preupgrade-assistant-contents bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

preupgrade-assistant-contents bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

Updated preupgrade-assistant-contents package that fixes several bugs and adds two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The preupgrade-assistant-contents package provides a set of scripts and plug-ins that are used to assess the system before a major version upgrade. The scripts and plug-ins are managed by the preupgrade-assistant package, which provides a tool with a user interface to perform the system analysis.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, certain packages handled by the Preupgrade Assistant utility had broken upgrade paths. As a consequence, these packages were not upgraded during system assessment. This update fixes the upgrade paths and the correct files are now downloaded and installed by the Preupgrade Assistant. (BZ#1075486)

  • Previously, after performing an in-place upgrade when SELinux was in "Enforcing" mode, the user could not log into the upgraded system. This bug has been fixed an now in-place upgrades execute successfully with SELinux enabled. (BZ#1145147)

  • Previously, it was not possible to edit the GRUB menu after an in-place upgrade and after GRUB had booted the new system. This bug has been fixed and now it is possible to add and remove commands from the GRUB menu successfully. (BZ#1146537)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

  • This update adds support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compute Node variant to the Preupgrade Assistant. (BZ#1127622)

  • This update implements a check for the minor version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This check ensures that your system is up-to-date for the upgrade. (BZ#1127655)

Users of preupgrade-assistant-contents are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds 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 for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
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

Updated Packages

  • preupgrade-assistant-contents-0.6.7-1.el6.src.rpm
  • preupgrade-assistant-contents-0.6.7-1.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information