RHBA-2015:0509 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated systemd packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux.

Bug fixes:

• The sbin/fsck.FS utility required the /sbin/fsck.nfs file, otherwise the boot

timed out. The utility has been modified to log a warning message in such case,
and the time out is now prevented. (BZ#1128892)

• Systemd removed cgroups created by the libvirtd daemon. The Delegate option

has been added to control creation of cgroup subhierarchies. As a result,
cgroups created by libvirtd are no longer removed. (BZ#1139223)

• Due to a missing Install section in serial-getty@.service unit file, the

"systemctl enable" command did not enable users to log in on additional
terminals using the getty utility. The Install section has been added.
(BZ#1083936)

• The network-online.target now always runs after network.target, and depending

services now start correctly. (BZ#1072431)

• Certain KVM over IP devices interfered with USB power management.

Consequently, keyboard and mouse did not work correctly on a remote console
during and after installation. USB power management is no longer enabled for
these devices, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#1155370)

• SELinux denied a check that was done using the default init_t context for

enable/disable/mask/unmask. SELinux check is now using the context of the unit
file as a target. BZ#1056008)

• Previously, NVMe devices were named as "unknown". The "scsi_id --export
• -whitelisted -d $tempnode" command is now executed from udev when the device

appears. As a result, the device is properly named. (BZ#1042990)

• The systemd-vconsole-setup did not apply settings to all kernel TTYs. If

non-us keyboard layout was used, certain characters did not display properly in
the console. The systemd-vconsole-setup now applies font settings correctly.
(BZ#1002450)

• The parsing of the /etc/locale.conf file has been modified to honor input from

the kernel command line. (BZ#1069420)

• With this update, if an interface uses a newly introduced dev_port kernel

attribute instead of dev_id, udev assigns dev_id a zero value to assure correct
naming of network devices. (BZ#1155996)

• This update fixes the calling of the Kill unit in the loginctl command.

(BZ#1155502)

• Kernel by itself did not enable newly added CPUs, CPUs had to be enabled

manually or systemd had to be rebooted. This update adds an udev rule that
automatically sets CPUs to "online" state after they appear in the system.
(BZ#968811)

• This update adds the "udev.event-timeout" parameter as a replacement for the

previously removed libguestfs "udevtimeout" parameter. (BZ#1154778)

• If two NIC devices had the same ACPI index, renaming the NIC failed and no RUN

jobs were executed. The udev event processing logic has been modified, and now
if NIC rename fails, RUN actions that relate to the currently processed event
are executed. (BZ#1102135)

Enhancements:

• Systemd now correctly detects if the Linux instance runs in LPAR mode in a VM

on IBM System z. (BZ#1139149)

• Support for ERRNO= messages has been implemented for notify sockets, and

notify services are now able to inform systemd about various error conditions
during runtime. (BZ#1106457)

• The systemd socket activation now supports SELinux. (BZ#1113790)
• This update adds the SocketUser and SocketGroup options that allow to set a

default owner for sockets created by systemd for socket-activated services.
(BZ#1111761)

• The "systemd-tmpfiles --root" option required by the Anaconda-OSTree

integration has been added. (BZ#1111199)

• A udev rule has been added to identify and name idrac devices. (BZ#1054477)
• The minimum pool size has been increased to 1024 bytes. (BZ#1066517)
• Support for the IBM 3270 terminal emulator has been added to the

getty-generator and serial-getty@.service. (BZ#1075729)

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

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64

Fixes

• BZ - 903776 - Installer dropped my keyboard layout, preventing me from logging in after rebooting
• BZ - 978948 - systemctl: Man page has no examples
• BZ - 986949 - StopWhenUnneeded does NOT stop service when there is nothing that Wants/Requires/... it
• BZ - 1049286 - locale.conf not properly documented
• BZ - 1064487 - RFE: add "set-property" to systemctl's bash-completion
• BZ - 1073036 - typo in /etc/rc.local, In constrast
• BZ - 1085455 - systemd-cgls -M qemu-my_vm not functioning
• BZ - 1088419 - LC_ALL=C systemd-delta prints escaped unicode characters ('?')
• BZ - 1102135 - udev fails to rename interfaces when there's questionable bios-es
• BZ - 1106457 - Doesn't implement NOTIFY_SOCKET ERRNO
• BZ - 1109145 - Keyboard layout of vconsole not matching the one selected during install
• BZ - 1113215 - rsyslogd logs kernel messages under the facility 'user' instead of 'kern'
• BZ - 1123452 - systemd-nspawn Host and machine ids are equal: refusing to link journals
• BZ - 1139223 - /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct/machine.slice disappears after systemctl daemon-reload
• BZ - 1145075 - bash-completion/completions/systemctl wrong path for systemd
• BZ - 1145352 - Miss match of journald.conf settings and the defaults outlined in the man page.
• BZ - 1147524 - Backport bugfix patches from upstream
• BZ - 1147691 - Hard to find message when a invalid environmentfile is used
• BZ - 1149299 - systemctl should return non-zero when user attempt to enable a masked service
• BZ - 1151239 - Systemd segfaults on start up with custom kernel (no CONFIG_SWAP)
• BZ - 1152487 - man systemd.unit does not explain Wanted= even if it promises to
• BZ - 1154778 - RFE: Backport udev.event_timeout (kernel parameter) to RHEL 7
• BZ - 1155502 - Various loginctl commands are not working
• BZ - 1161417 - mount units with the _netdev option don't order against remote-fs.target as documented

CVEs

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References

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