Recommended update for sbd

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1371-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 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 12 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update of sbd to version 1.3.1 provides the following fixes:

  • Do not create duplicate servants. (bsc#1033934, bsc#1065748)
  • Correctly look up servant by device name. (bsc#1033934, bsc#1065748)
  • systemd: Make pacemaker & dlm wait for sbd-start to complete.
  • Doc: sbd.sysconfig: Mention timeout caveat with SBD_DELAY_START. (bsc#1074038)
  • Replace references to /var/adm/fillup-templates with new %_fillupdir macro. (bsc#1069468)
  • Add commands to test/query watchdogs.
  • man: Call "-P" option "Pacemaker integration" in the description. (bsc#1033600)
  • sbd-inquisitor: Do not use watchdog if the conflicting options "-W" and "-w /dev/null" are both supplied. (bsc#1047376)
  • sbd-inquisitor: Enable pacemaker integration by default as advertised in sysconfig.sbd. (bsc#1046421, bsc#1033600)
  • sbd-inquisitor: Respect the obsolete option SBD_WATCHDOG for backward compatibility. (bsc#1047372)
  • Don't reboot if off is requested.
  • Use a more obvious variable on parsing devices. (bsc#1033934)
  • Doc: sbd.8.pod: Add documentation about query-watchdog and test-watchdog.
  • sbd-md: Make dump_headers return 0 even if calling open_device failed. (bsc#1079316)
  • Build: sbd-pacemaker: Query CIB directly with the API instead of get_cib_copy(). (bsc#1084689)
  • Log: Upgrade important messages and downgrade unimportant ones. (bsc#1091839)
  • Log: Change sbd's default logging level to LOG_NOTICE. (bsc#1091839)
  • sbd-md: Return error in case of failing to list any devices. (bsc#1086650)
  • sbd-cluster: Let scan do the job of proc-parsing.
  • sbd-cluster: Search for pacemaker-remoted.

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 Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP3-2018-953=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP3-2018-953=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • sbd-1.3.1+20180507.e102d9e-4.5.2
    • sbd-debuginfo-1.3.1+20180507.e102d9e-4.5.2
    • sbd-debugsource-1.3.1+20180507.e102d9e-4.5.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP3 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • sbd-1.3.1+20180507.e102d9e-4.5.2
    • sbd-debuginfo-1.3.1+20180507.e102d9e-4.5.2
    • sbd-debugsource-1.3.1+20180507.e102d9e-4.5.2

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