Recommended update for dracut

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:1950-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that has five fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for dracut fixes the following issues:

  • Update to version 049.1+suse.152.g8506e86f:
  • 01fips: modprobe failures during manual module loading is not fatal. (bsc#bsc#1169997)
  • 91zipl: parse-zipl.sh: honor SYSTEMD_READY. (bsc#1165828)
  • 95iscsi: fix ipv6 target discovery. (bsc#1172807)

  • 35network-legacy: correct conditional for creating did-setup file. (bsc#1172807)

  • Update to version 049.1+suse.148.gc4a6c2dd:

  • 95fcoe: load 'libfcoe' module as a fallback. (bsc#1173560)
  • 99base: enable the initqueue in both 'dracut --add-device' and 'dracut --mount' cases. (bsc#1161573)

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-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-1950=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • dracut-049.1+suse.152.g8506e86f-3.8.1
    • dracut-debuginfo-049.1+suse.152.g8506e86f-3.8.1
    • dracut-fips-049.1+suse.152.g8506e86f-3.8.1
    • dracut-debugsource-049.1+suse.152.g8506e86f-3.8.1
    • dracut-ima-049.1+suse.152.g8506e86f-3.8.1

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