Issued:

2016-05-12

Updated:

2016-05-12

RHBA-2016:1026 - systemd bug fix update

Synopsis

systemd bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

Updated systemd packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• In an earlier version, the default value of the ForwardToSyslog parameter was changed and was by default set to "no". Consequently, the rsyslog utility was by default reading data from journal through the imjournal plug-in, in which case forwarding to traditional syslog daemons was not affected. However, if the syslog daemon read messages through the /run/systemd/journal/syslog file, forwarding to traditional syslog daemons was turned off. This update sets the default value of ForwardToSyslog to "yes" to prevent the described behavior from occurring. (BZ#1328780)

• Due to a bug in handling errors when compressing journal objects, the journald service could stop working under certain circumstances, and error messages were logged. With this update, compression errors are handled properly. As a result, the described problem no longer occurs, and logs are available as expected. (BZ#1331339)

Users of systemd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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

Updated Packages

• systemd-resolved-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-python-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc.rpm
• systemd-python-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.i686.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-19.el7_2.9.i686.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-19.el7_2.9.i686.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-python-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-19.el7_2.9.s390.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.9.i686.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.9.s390.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-19.el7_2.9.s390.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-219-19.el7_2.9.src.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.i686.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-python-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.s390.rpm
• systemd-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-19.el7_2.9.s390.rpm
• systemd-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-219-19.el7_2.9.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-19.el7_2.9.i686.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-19.el7_2.9.s390.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-19.el7_2.9.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-19.el7_2.9.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1328780
• This content is not included.BZ - 1331339

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal

Additional information

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