Recommended update for transactional-update

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2020:2448-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for transactional-update fixes the following issue:

  • Mount efivarfs on EFI systems. (bsc#1162320)

If the EFI variables are not available, some incorrect parameters will be attached to grub2-install, writing the binary to a wrong location. Due to this, the system fails at reboot with a missing symbol error.

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:

  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Transactional-Server-15-SP2-2020-2448=1

Package List:

  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • transactional-update-debuginfo-2.20.3-3.3.1
    • transactional-update-2.20.3-3.3.1
    • transactional-update-debugsource-2.20.3-3.3.1
  • Transactional Server Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • transactional-update-zypp-config-2.20.3-3.3.1

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