Recommended update for dracut

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:1268-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for dracut fixes the following issues:

  • Solve bringing up network interface prematurely. (bsc#1169030)
  • shutdown: guard against read-only /run (bsc#1167656)
  • dracut-init: when is it not possible to load a module, prompt a warning message for dracut instead of a fatal error. (bsc#1169997)
  • Backport upstream typo fix in dmsquash-live-root.sh so that FSIMG variable is correctly set. (bsc#1165024)

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-1268=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • dracut-044.2-18.58.1
    • dracut-debuginfo-044.2-18.58.1
    • dracut-ima-044.2-18.58.1
    • dracut-fips-044.2-18.58.1
    • dracut-debugsource-044.2-18.58.1

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