cman bug-fix update

Advisory:	RHBA-2009:1444-1
Type:	Bug Fix Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2009-09-15
Last updated on:	2009-09-15
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.3.z server)
OVAL:	N/A

Details

Updated cman packages that fix a big are now available.

The Cluster Manager (cman) utility provides user-level services for
managing a Linux cluster.

This update applies the following bug fix:

* in several places internally, cman assumed a transition message meant the
node in question (or the sending node) was joining the cluster rather than
just sending its current post-transition state. In some circumstances this
could lead to cman killing the wrong nodes. With this update, cman now
checks the first_trans flag, which is set when a node first encounters
another node in the cluster. Only if first_trans is set does cman now
consider the node as joining the cluster. (BZ#518060)

All cman users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this
issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.3.z server)

SRPMS:
cman-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.src.rpm	`bd8ffacec93f8ed14278ac9e3e7242d5`

IA-32:
cman-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.i386.rpm	`29119ae7d49031de2fcc9cf7dc4881eb`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.i386.rpm	`e447ec6baa13d01d8ff50a1caf58de7c`

IA-64:
cman-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.ia64.rpm	`de88e39cc83ec33a9eeb5c968613953c`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.ia64.rpm	`b0eb450d69501b33e1a3919f9c67cf00`

PPC:
cman-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.ppc.rpm	`6b2de112d0684c6ffe58c99b791b3bd5`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.ppc.rpm	`eb12830b697dbf6d87229408e57b754f`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.ppc64.rpm	`adbe8ca46c7319610cb65d2074ebbfc2`

s390x:
cman-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.s390x.rpm	`636f8c9f90e5c2786b71b158b3ca0b6a`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.s390.rpm	`5b94771b7e83e33e97103f2e62949c35`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.s390x.rpm	`bb9ae32db410111de2f524f820e2ed4c`

x86_64:
cman-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.x86_64.rpm	`56183217aa49bafa76beb0adde2833fd`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.i386.rpm	`e447ec6baa13d01d8ff50a1caf58de7c`
cman-devel-2.0.98-1.el5_3.8.x86_64.rpm	`118047dbbb8034a305101a334c6d7361`

(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

518060 - Cman kills wrong nodes..

Keywords

cman

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