Recommended update for smartmontools
Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2018:1649-2 |
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Rating: | moderate |
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An update that has five fixes can now be installed.
Description:
This update for smartmontools fixes the following issues:
smartmontools was updated to 6.6 version (FATE#321901, bsc#1080611, FATE#322874)
Changes:
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smartctl:
- -i' and '--identify': ATA ACS-4 and SATA 3.3 enhancements.
- Control ATA write cache through SCT Feature Control with '-s wcache-sct,ata|on|off[,p]' and '-g wcache-sct'.
- Print ATA Pending Defects log with '-l defects'.
- '-s wcreorder,on|off': New persistent flag ',p'.
- '-s standby': Prevent temporary drive spinup.
- '-n POWERMODE': New parameter to set exit status.
- '-g security': ATA Security Level check fixed.
- '-l scttemp*': Print minimum supported ERC Time Limit.
- '-q noserial': Now also suppresses "SAS address" output.
- '-i': Print IEEE EUI-64 of NVMe namespace.
- '-c': Print NVMe 1.3 feature flags.
- '-A': Print NVMe 1.3 thermal temperature transition statistic.
- '-g/s dsn': Get/set ATA DSN.
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smartd
- Uses also device identify information to detect for duplicate devices.
- '-e dsn' directive: Set ATA DSN.
- Improved SCSI/SAS temperature logging.
- Silence emails and log messages on open errors of '-d removable' devices.
- Exit on device open error unless '-q never' or '-d removable' is specified (regression).
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update-smart-drivedb: Now authenticates downloaded file with GnuPG.
- update-smart-drivedb: New options '--trunk', '--no-verify' and '--export-key'.
- Device type '-d intelliprop,N' for IntelliProp controllers.
- SCSI: Default timeout increased to 1 minute.
- configure: New options '--with-gnupg', '--with-scriptpath' and '--with-update-smart-drivedb=X.Y'
- configure: Checks for C++11 support option and requires '--with[out]-cxx11-option' if option unknown or no C++11 support.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- New smartmontools-* mailing list addresses.
- Man page formatting reworked.
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Linux:
- Uses SG_IO V4 API if supported.
- Devices behind hpsa driver are no longer detected as regular SCSI devices.
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Darwin: Initial NVMe support based on undocumented API.
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FreeBSD:
- Fix panic on INVARIANTS enabled kernel.
- Improve ATA SMART STATUS check for legacy controllers.
- Compile fix for FreeBSD-11 and newer.
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NetBSD:
- NVMe support.
- Full 28-bit ATA support.
- Compile fix.
- Use a raw disk device file.
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OpenBSD: Compile fix.
- OS/2: Support for the OS2AHCI driver, updating source code, adding autoscan support, adding self-test support.
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Windows fixes:
- Support for Windows 10 NVMe driver (stornvme.sys).
- Fix CSMI access for IRST driver 15.2.
- smartd: Ability to run PowerShell scripts with '-M exec'.
- smartd: New PowerShell script to send smartd warning emails without external tools.
- package now provides PDF man pages.
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SCSI temperature error fixes (bsc#1047198)
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Drop systemd dependency on syslog.target (bsc#983938). https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2013-05/msg00102.html
Updated to 6.5 version:
- Experimental support for NVMe devices on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.
- smartctl '-i', '-c', '-H' and '-l error': NVMe support.
- smartctl '-l nvmelog': New option for NVMe.
- smartd.conf '-H', '-l error' and '-W': NVMe support.
- Optional NVMe device scanning support on Linux and Windows.
- configure option '--with-nvme-devicescan' to include NVMe in
- default device scanning result.
- Device scanning now allows to specify multiple '-d TYPE' options.
- ATA: Added new POWER MODE values introduced in ATA ACS-2.
- ATA: SCT commands are no longer issued if ATA Security is locked.
- SCSI: LB provisioning improvements.
- SCSI: Fixed GLTSD bit set/cleared info messages.
- SCSI: Solid State media log page is no longer checked for tapes.
- SCSI: Improved handling when no tape cartridge in drive.
- SCSI: Workaround for buggy Seagate firmware.
- SAT: Improved heuristics to detect bogus sense data from SAT layer.
- smartd: Fixed crash on missing argument to '-s' directive. update-smart-drivedb: Now uses HTTPS for download by default.
- update-smart-drivedb: New options to select URL and download tool.
- update-smart-drivedb: New download tool 'svn'.
- configure option '--without-update-smart-drivedb' to disable update-smart-drivedb script.
- configure options '--disable-drivedb', '--enable-savestates', '--enable-attributelog' and '--with-docdir' are no longer supported.
- autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are no longer supported.
- Drive database file now also includes the DEFAULT setting for each attribute.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- Darwin: New support files for package installer.
- New makefile target 'install-darwin' builds DMG image.
- Solaris: Auto detection of SATA devices behind SAT layer.
- Solaris SPARC: Legacy ATA support disabled by default. New configure option '--with-solaris-sparc-ata' enables it. File os_solaris_ata.s is no longer included in source tarball.
- Windows: Auto detection of USB devices specified by drive letter.
- Windows: Device scanning does no longer ignore unknown USB devices.
- Windows: Prevent drive spin up by '-n standby' check.
- Windows: New application manifests indicating Win 10 support.
- Windows smartd: '-m [sys]msgbox' is no longer supported.
- Windows installer: Defaults to 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
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Various code changes suggested by Clang Static Analyser and Cppcheck.
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enable "--with-nvme-devicescan" option
- use --with-savestates, --with-attributelog, --docdir instead of old options
Updated to version 6.0.4:
- Device type ' *d usbprolific' for Prolific PL2571/277x USB bridges.
- SAT: Support for ATA registers returned in fixed format sense data.
- smartctl ' i' and ' * identify': ATA ACS *4 and SATA 3.2 enhancements.
- smartctl ' *l xerror': Support for logs with more than 255 pages.
- smartctl ' l devstat': Prints ACS 3 DSN flags.
- smartctl ' *l devstat': Read via SMART command if GP log is not available.
- smartctl ' l scttempsts': Prints SCT SMART STATUS (ACS 4) and vendor specific SCT bytes.
- configure option ' * with systemdenvfile=auto' as new default.
- configure options ' * disable drivedb', ' * enable savestates' and ' * enable attributelog' are deprecated.
- Corresponding ' * with *' options are enhanced accordingly.
- Configure option ' * with docdir' is deprecated.
- autoconf < 2.60 and automake < 1.10 are deprecated. (all of the above still work but a warning is printed if used)
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- Linux: AACRAID fixes, SMART STATUS should work now.
- Linux: '/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node' fd leak fix.
- Darwin: ' S' command implemented, ' l devstat' should work now.
- Cygwin: Compile fix.
- Windows: Device type ' *d aacraid' for AACRAID controllers.
- Windows: SAT autodetection based on IOCTL_STORAGE_QUERY_PROPERTY.
- Windows installer: Fix possible loss of user PATH environment variable.
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Cleanup and remove conditional macros; the package doesn't build for SLE anyway
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Run Self Tests:
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Short Self Test every night
- Extended Self Test every month
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Discussion: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-03/msg00040.html
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Package empty /etc/smartd_warning.d for warning plugins.
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Re-add /usr/sbin/rcsmards symlink (bsc#900099).
- Fix service restart in smartmontools.generate_smartd_opts.in (bsc#900099).
Updated to version 6.3:
- smartctl: Fixed bogus error messages from '-g/-s wcreorder'.
- smartctl prints ATA form factor.
- SCSI: Improved support of modern disks (SAS SSDs).
- SCSI: Fixed sense data noise from old disks.
- update-smart-drivedb man page.
- configure option '--with-smartdscriptdir'.
- configure option '--with-smartdplugindir'.
- configure option '--with-systemdenvfile'.
- configure option '--with-working-snprintf'.
- Removed build time stamps to support reproducible builds.
- Compile fixes for C++11.
- HDD, SSD and USB additions to drive database.
- Linux: Support for controllers behind AACRAID driver.
- Linux: Fixed DEVICESCAN max path count.
- FreeBSD: Fixed possible crash caused by wrong SCSI error handling.
- FreeBSD: Compile fix for kFreeBSD.
- Windows: Reworked CSMI port scanning.
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QNX: Compile fix.
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Make possible to disable broken SAT support by -d scsi+cciss,N (bsc#1038271 https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/871).
- Build with large file support in 32 bit systems.
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:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-1116=1
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 ESPOS 12-SP2
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-ESPOS-2018-1116=1
Package List:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 BCL 12-SP2 (x86_64)
- smartmontools-6.6-6.3.3
- smartmontools-debugsource-6.6-6.3.3
- smartmontools-debuginfo-6.6-6.3.3
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 ESPOS 12-SP2 (x86_64)
- smartmontools-6.6-6.3.3
- smartmontools-debugsource-6.6-6.3.3
- smartmontools-debuginfo-6.6-6.3.3