- Issued:
- 2014-01-21
- Updated:
- 2014-01-21
RHBA-2014:0057 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
rhevm-guest-agent bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated rhevm-guest-agent packages that fix several bugs are now available.
Description
The rhevm-guest-agent allows the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager to
receive internal guest events and retrieve information such as the IP address
and list of installed applications from the guest. Additionally the guest agent
allows the Manager to execute specific commands, such as shut down or reboot, on
guest virtual machines.
This update fixes the following bugs:
- Previously there was an error in the log files of the rhevm-guest-agent when
users disconnected from the console accessing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtual
machines. This bug resolves this issue by supplying a script which was missing.
(BZ#923775)
- Previously the removal of the /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent folder failed on
removal of the rhevm-guest-agent. This was caused by symlinks which have not
been removed before there was an attempt to remove the folder. This has now been
fixed and the folder will be properly removed on removal of the
rhevm-guest-agent. (BZ#948173)
- A syntax error in /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/GuestAgentLinux2.py was caused
by incompatibility with python 2.4, so the guest agent failed on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 guests. This error is fixed by rewriting the instances of
ternary operator "if" to be compatible with python 2.4. The syntax error no
longer occurs. (BZ#1006861)
Users of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization guest agents are advised to
install this updated rhevm-guest-agent package in their virtual machines.
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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 923775 - Error while reading the virtio-serial channel
- BZ - 948173 - D: erase rmdir of /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent failed: Directory not empty
- BZ - 995465 - RHEL-5 - Rebase to ovirt-guest-agent 1.0.8 release
- BZ - 1006861 - [ovirt-guest-agent] syntaxerror because of python 2.4.x on RHEL5 in /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/GuestAgentLinux2.py
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.8-6.el5ev.src.rpm | SHA-256: 85abdf9df3d81ee1a40fa6e72b638ff18e0da606b52ccf85e6c2147ecc3cf26c |
x86_64 | |
rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.8-6.el5ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 66ec8e75be8b819789f94d2673889f48e765e9477e54bb49b92431eaeb61f756 |
i386 | |
rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.8-6.el5ev.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 66ec8e75be8b819789f94d2673889f48e765e9477e54bb49b92431eaeb61f756 |
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