SUSE-RU-2026:1760-1: important: Recommended update for suse-migration-services

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Fri May 8 12:30:14 UTC 2026



# Recommended update for suse-migration-services

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2026:1760-1  
Release Date: 2026-05-08T07:57:10Z  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1258174
  * bsc#1258710

  
Affected Products:

  * Basesystem Module 15-SP7
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7
  * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

  
  
An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for suse-migration-services fixes the following issues:

  * Add explicit SLES15 migration target check Instead of falling back to the
    default with a misleading warning message, make sure to check for this
    target explicitly beforehand
  * Fix Zypper class command output handling The way zypper is called always
    redirects all output, stdout and stderr into the main log file. Because of
    that the variables self.output and self.error are always empty. This commit
    fixes the command call in a way that stdout and stderr are multiplexed such
    that the caller data can be captured by the python call and the data gets
    appended to the log file too. This commit also drops the unused and due to
    the redirection always empty self.error variable. For multiplexing the tee
    command gets used which impacts the returncode of the actual call. In order
    to get the correct exit code we use set -o pipefail.
  * Fix validation of zypper migration result Up to now the assumption was that
    any situation in which zypper migration cannot migrate the system returns
    with an error, meaning exit code != 0. However, this assumption is wrong.
    There are condition in which zypper migration only indicates a problem with
    a message saying 'No migration available' and the call return with a
    successful error code = 0. This causes big trouble for the DMS in a way that
    it continues running its services which all assumes the migration to the
    next major release was performed. It misleads readers of the log file into
    the wrong direction and the worst it causes modifications to the host system
    when it was not migrated. This commit makes sure that the migration stops
    and treats the above message as an error condition.
  * Add time info to backup directory So far only the date information was part
    of the backup directory. However, if multiple migration attempts happens on
    the same day, this would overwrite the data.
  * Fix migrate tool for container based migration The tool overwrites an
    eventually existing /etc/sle-migration-service.yml config file. This commit
    fixes it by using yq and inplace updates
  * Fix md device detection Fix detection of device mapper layered rootfs.
    Software raid disks are not found by findmnt if the actual rootfs is one or
    more layers down. This commit fixes the detection if we need to pass along
    the rd.auto cmdline option to let the boot process activate them.
  * Fix btrfs snapshot services Do not perform snapshot operations if the root
    filesystem is not btrfs based.
  * Fix lsm precheck Yet another test that doesn't restrict the scope of its
    runtime environment.
  * Fixed scope check for cpu_arch and check_ha The prechecks for cpu_arch and
    ha did not receive the value for the migration_system mode. As such these
    checks could not differentiate between being called on the host to upgrade
    or as part of the live migration system. This lead to unwanted check calls
    and invalid fail information as part of the migration log file
  * Fixed dataProvider setup in regionserverclnt.cfg In case of Azure the
    dataProvider information gets a device parameter added. This parameter must
    be added only once or not at all if it is already present.
  * Fixup import of certificates Only import if the file exists and is not a
    directory. We still assume that the file content of the pki trust
    directories matches certificates and not random non certificate files.
  * Fix consistency of regionserverclnt.cfg The DMS copies the contents of
    system-root/etc/regionserverclnt.cfg into the live migration system
    /etc/regionserverclnt.cfg. However, after the copy the
    update_regionsrv_setup() function modifies the contents of system-
    root/etc/regionserverclnt.cfg if the dataProvider is azuremetadata. This
    leads to different content of the file in system-root and the file in /.
    Whether or not this is causing a problem for the migration is unclear, but
    in any case having the file twice with different content during the DMS
    runtime is a bug. (bsc#1258710)
  * Fix setup of migration target for pre-check The check sending a request to
    the SCC offline migrations API requires a proper migration target name. This
    name is constructed from the installed migration live image package name
    which follows a strict naming policy. For SAP targets the code missed the
    detection path. This commit fixes it. (bsc#1258174)
  * Make sure to fallback to scc.suse.com Systems that are not providing
    /etc/SUSEConnect should fallback to the default registration server which is
    https://scc.suse.com
  * Switch reboot default In light of recent issues reported with soft reboot we
    are chaning the reboot method to a full reboot. This is intended to reduce
    the number of requests we receive to investigate boot issues.
  * Move default container to official devel project
  * Fixed disk device name passed to azuremetadata When setting the disk device
    name in the regionserverclnt.cfg for azure we used the unix device node, e.g
    /dev/sda. This is not a persistent device name and may change. This commit
    uses the by-id representation for the disk device from udev which is not
    expected to change.
  * Fix SLES SAP migration 12 - 15 in public clouds Workaround an issue in the
    SLE15 SP4 based live migration system used for SAP migrations only. The
    zypper version on SLE15 SP4 is too old and does not support --gpg-auto-
    import-keys. This workaround patches the DMS code to not use this option. As
    soon as the SAP migration live image can switch to a newer SP, this
    workaround can hopefully be removed again.
  * Fix python compatibility on latest zypper change Unfortunately the code has
    to comply with the oldest distribution migration that we support. This
    includes compatibility with the python 3.6 interpreter (SLE15). The latest
    change on the Zypper class introduced a TypeError and broke the migration.
    This commit fixes it. It should be safe to move the DMS code base to python
    3.11 as the oldest migration live image is based on SLE15-SP4 which is the
    first target that has a python 3.11 stack. However, I hesitate to add this
    change now as we already have enough other problems with regards to the
    migration. As such it shouldn't be a problem to stay python 3.6 compatible
    for the moment.

## 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:

  * Basesystem Module 15-SP7  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-1760=1

## Package List:

  * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (noarch)
    * python3-migration-2.1.34-150700.15.24.1
    * suse-migration-scripts-2.1.34-150700.15.24.1
    * suse-migration-pre-checks-2.1.34-150700.15.24.1

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258174
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258710

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