Recommended update for yast2 and yast2-services-manager

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:3023-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has five fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for yast2 and yast2-services-manager provides the following fixes:

Fixes in both packages:

  • Add support for systemd services that can only be started on-demand. (fate#319428, bsc#1104568)
  • Fix support to handle services during early 1st stage. (fate#319428)

Fixes in yast2:

  • Improve systemd socket detection. (fate#319428)
  • Fix an exception in SystemService#find_many.
  • Add a method to detect whether a systemd service exists in the underlying system or not. (fate#319428)
  • Fix systemd socket detection.
  • Do not display "download failed" error when using unsigned packages. (bsc#1096027)
  • Firewall state can now be correctly determined. (bsc#1093111)
  • Increases the timeout for systemctl command executions (bsc#1098910)
  • CWM: allow to define next handler for CWM#show and define default next handler in CWM::Dialog. This is needed for Expert Partitioner. (fate#318196)

Fixes in yast2-services-manager:

  • Show systemd state and substate for each service, e.g. "Active (Running)". (bsc#1080738)
  • Added a new menu button to select the service start mode (on boot, on demand or manually). (fate#319427)
  • Added additional searchkeys to desktop file. (fate#321043)

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
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2157=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • yast2-4.0.87-3.12.1
  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • yast2-services-manager-4.0.7-3.4.4

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