Recommended update for pdsh

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:2962-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • HPC 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 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 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 one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for pdsh fixes the following issues:

pdsh was update to version 2.33 for SLE-12 (HPC) (FATE#324169 bsc#1066731).

  • Always pass RTLD_GLOBAL to dlopen(3) of modules. Fixes missing symbol errors from modules using libraries that also use dlopen() (e.g. nodeupdown, slurm)
  • Switch to dlopen(3)/dlsym(3) instead of using libltdl
  • Drop qshell, mqshell, rmsquery, nodeattr and sdr modules.
  • Fix issue 70: dshbak: handle hostname of "0"
  • Allow PDSH_CONNECT_TIMEOUT and PDSH_COMMAND_TIMEOUT environment variables (Erik Jacobson)
  • Fix some old URLs in documentation (Al Chu)
  • Avoid exporting POSIXLY_CORRECT to child processes (Dorian Krause)
  • Fix mcmd start offset bug in max bytes calculation (Egbert Eich)

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:

  • HPC Module 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-12-2017-1837=1

Package List:

  • HPC Module 12 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • pdsh-2.33-7.3.1
    • pdsh-debuginfo-2.33-7.3.1
    • pdsh-debugsource-2.33-7.3.1

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