RHBA-2022:7895 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for leapp and leapp-repository is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Description

The leapp packages provide the Leapp utility, a framework for performing an in-place upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The leapp-repository packages provide modules for the Leapp utility.

The leapp package has been upgraded to version 0.15.0. The leapp-repository package has been upgraded to version 0.17.0.

The possible in-place upgrade paths currently are:

• From RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.4 and RHEL 8.6 on the 64-bit Intel, IBM POWER 8 (little endian), and IBM Z architectures.
• From RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.2 and RHEL 8.6 on systems with SAP HANA. To ensure your system with SAP HANA remains supported after upgrading to RHEL 8, enable the RHEL 8.6 (or 8.2) Update Services for SAP Solutions (E4S) repositories.

See Supported in-place upgrade paths for Red Hat Enterprise Linux linked from the References section.

Notable enhancements include:

• The in-place upgrade of SAP Apps systems is now correctly processed on Microsoft Azure with Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI).
• The in-place upgrade is now possible on Google Cloud Platform with Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI).

For detailed instructions on performing an in-place upgrade, see Upgrading from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 linked from the References section.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1836179 - leapp fails with a permission denied on ldconfig (noexec on /var)
• BZ - 1885335 - System upgrade fails with "Inhibitor: LUKS encrypted partition detected" when Ceph OSDs have dmcrypt: true
• BZ - 1917314 - leapp process fails when running the root_scanner actor when it encounters non utf8 filenames
• BZ - 1937383 - A missing LF in /etc/default/grub caused a fail IPU upon reboot
• BZ - 2036069 - leapp detects NFSD as an NFS partition
• BZ - 2071553 - LEAPP upgrade fails to run installer due to insufficient resources
• BZ - 2072550 - Leapp fails when the LANGUAGE env variable is set in another language
• BZ - 2090745 - Rebase leapp package to new upstream version
• BZ - 2090749 - Rebase leapp-repository package to new upstream version
• BZ - 2101840 - Leapp fails while executing an SQL insert request containing the hostname (leapp.db)

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/upgrading_from_rhel_7_to_rhel_8/
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/4263361
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/4977891