RHBA-2023:3187 - 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 0.15.1. The leapp-repository package has been upgraded to version 0.18.0.

The possible in-place upgrade paths currently are:

• From RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.6 and RHEL 8.8 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:

• In-place upgrades using an ISO image that contains the target version are now possible.
• RPM signatures are now automatically checked during the in-place upgrade.
• Systems that are subscribed to RHSM are now automatically registered with Red Hat Insights.
• Red Hat now collects upgrade-related data, such as the upgrade start and end times and whether the upgrade was successful, for utility usage analysis.

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 - 1901440 - leapp upgrade fails in reboot phase when /boot is merged into / on zVM
• BZ - 1905519 - [leapp] upgrade failed with udev net persistent rules
• BZ - 1972238 - [leapp] inhibit the upgrade when FSTAB contains entries in incorrect order
• BZ - 1988449 - Systemd enable targets symlinks not migrated to changed wantedby during leapp upgrade
• BZ - 1988457 - [RHEL8.4/Leapp/Bug] Broken systemlinks in /etc/systemd/system
• BZ - 2014009 - [RFE] Leapp should automatically detect the proxy in yum/dnf
• BZ - 2031098 - Leapp fails when /etc/passwd contains external accounts
• BZ - 2032953 - s390x: leapp post-upgrade doesn't enable "device_cio_free.service" unit, which is required on Z
• BZ - 2055117 - After an IPU, sar logs are not updated anymore
• BZ - 2089514 - leapp fails when chronyd is masked
• BZ - 2110045 - [ RFE ] Improve the error message displayed by leapp when the concerned XFS filesystem is built with ftype=0 option
• BZ - 2122712 - [RFE] Provide Ability To In-Place Upgrade Using An ISO Image
• BZ - 2127918 - Removing leapp* packages after the upgrade keeps untracked pyc files
• BZ - 2143374 - Rebase leapp-repository package to new upstream version 0.18.0
• BZ - 2158527 - [PES] IPU 7->8 fails when quagga is installed
• BZ - 2159288 - [leapp] IPU 7->8: grubenv should be checked before the reboot step
• BZ - 2162785 - Rebase leapp package to new upstream version 0.15.1
• BZ - 2163796 - [leapp] false positive risk factor on ceph volumes when ceph-osd is missing

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