Recommended update for dracut

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:0546-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3

An update that has 14 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for dracut provides the following fixes:

  • 95iscsi: Handle qedi like bnx2i. (bsc#1113712)
  • 91zipl: Don't use contents of commented lines (bsc#1119499)
  • dracut-installkernel: Stop keeping old kernel files as .old. The .old kernel files are confusing grub2 which can't find a matching directory under /lib/modules. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the new modules are fully compatible with the old kernel. If anything goes wrong with a new self-compiled kernel, the user can always boot back to the distribution kernel, so the .old backup files are not needed in the first place. (bsc#1112327)
  • 98dracut-systemd: Start systemd-vconsole-setup before dracut-cmdline-ask. (bsc#1055834)
  • Bring shell and all vital information to all ttys specified as console devices in emergency mode. (fate#325386, bsc#1053248, bsc#937555)
  • Fix displaying text on emergency consoles. (bsc#1124088)
  • Remove invalid "FONT_MAP=none" from vconsole.conf. (bsc#1013573)
  • Fix a missing space in example configs. (bsc#1121251)
  • Fix saving dumps to zFCP attached SCSI disks. (bsc#1008352)
  • Mark the DASD udev rules host-only and handle backslashes in paths for hostonly files. (bsc#1090884)
  • Add nfit module. (bsc#1110519)
  • Add a fix to override ACPI tables via initrd, a kernel config variable changed name. (bsc#1098448)
  • purge-kernels: Avoid endless loop when uninstalling kernels that depend on KMPs which in themselves depend on other packages (bsc#1125327)

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:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-546=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-546=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-546=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-546=1
  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 (x86_64)
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.1-114.25.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-fips-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.1-114.25.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-fips-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.1-114.25.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-fips-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.1-114.25.1
  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 (x86_64)
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.1-114.25.1
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0 (x86_64)
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.1-114.25.1
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0 (x86_64)
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-044.1-114.25.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.1-114.25.1

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