Recommended update for psmisc

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2226-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for psmisc fixes the following issues:

  • It does no longer list all processes from different private namespaces when fuser is run on an NFS mount. This led to an issue where the wrong processes were terminated in an SAP application cluster environment (bsc#1185208)

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 High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-2226=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-2226=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-2226=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • psmisc-22.21-6.19.1
    • psmisc-debuginfo-22.21-6.19.1
    • psmisc-debugsource-22.21-6.19.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • psmisc-lang-22.21-6.19.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • psmisc-22.21-6.19.1
    • psmisc-debuginfo-22.21-6.19.1
    • psmisc-debugsource-22.21-6.19.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • psmisc-lang-22.21-6.19.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • psmisc-22.21-6.19.1
    • psmisc-debuginfo-22.21-6.19.1
    • psmisc-debugsource-22.21-6.19.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • psmisc-lang-22.21-6.19.1

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