Issued:

2017-04-12

Updated:

2017-04-12

RHBA-2017:0909 - 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 parallelism 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:

• Previously, there was a bug in the way systemd handles resource limits specification. As a consequence, setting resource limits failed, displaying the error "Failed to parse resource value, ignoring". This bug has been fixed, and systemd no longer fails when setting resource limits. (BZ#1399638)

• Previously, there was a bug in the add_random function in systemd. This caused systemd to sometimes terminate unexpectedly when a unit was scheduled to run at a specific time, without any randomized delay. This update fixes the bug, and systemd no longer crashes in the described situation. (BZ#1399639)

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-219-30.el7_3.8.src.rpm
• systemd-python-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.s390.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.s390.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.i686.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-python-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.i686.rpm
• systemd-python-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.s390.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.s390.rpm
• systemd-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.s390.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.i686.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-debuginfo-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-resolved-219-30.el7_3.8.i686.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.i686.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.i686.rpm
• systemd-python-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-30.el7_3.8.aarch64.rpm
• systemd-networkd-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.s390.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc.rpm
• libgudev1-devel-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-journal-gateway-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm
• systemd-python-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64.rpm
• systemd-sysv-219-30.el7_3.8.ppc64le.rpm
• libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1421712

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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