Recommended update for google-compute-engine

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1791-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Public Cloud Module 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for google-compute-engine to version 20180510 provides the following fixes (bsc#1066273, bsc#1092214):

  • Prevent delay in configuring IP forwarding routes.
  • Include new google-network-daemon.
  • Stop shipping deprecated google-ip-forwarding-daemon service.
  • Install google_oslogin_nss_cache binary into oslogin package.
  • Create a new network daemon.
  • Refactor the IP forwarding daemon and network setup.
  • Improvements for using NSS cache in the accounts daemon.
  • Include libnss cache as part of the OS Login package.
  • Add distro specific logic.
  • Support SLES 11 and 12 in multi-nic setup.
  • Fix boto config documentation.
  • Add modprobe blacklist for nouveau and floppy modules.
  • Fix irqbalance conflict in Debian package.
  • Fix conflict with other applications that use curl and SSL.
  • Install new kernel module blacklist into /etc/modprobe.d.
  • Ensure that google-ip-forwarding-daemon service and google-network-setup are stopped and disabled during upgrade.
  • Ensure that google-network-daemon service is enabled and started during upgrade.
  • Set run_dir to /var/run. (bsc#1097378, bsc#1097616)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Public Cloud Module 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-12-2018-1210=1

Package List:

  • Public Cloud Module 12 (noarch)
    • google-compute-engine-init-20180510-19.1
  • Public Cloud Module 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • google-compute-engine-oslogin-debuginfo-20180510-19.1
    • google-compute-engine-oslogin-20180510-19.1

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