RHBA-2020:1207 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for systemd is 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.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• Restarting systemd-journald to load new configurations causes other

daemons stop working (BZ#1803802)

• [FJ7.8 Bug]: systemd: restarting systemd-journald.service fails

(BZ#1807798)

• Mount units end up in erroneous state (not-found active mounted) after daemon reload (BZ#1809159)
• Services with Restart=always fail to restart when it has a dependent service with StopWhenUnneeded=true (BZ#1810576)

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 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 Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1803802 - Restarting systemd-journald to load new configurations causes other daemons stop working [rhel-7.8.z]
• BZ - 1809159 - Mount units end up in erroneous state (not-found active mounted) after daemon reload [rhel-7.8.z]
• BZ - 1810576 - Services with Restart=always fail to restart when it has a dependent service with StopWhenUnneeded=true [rhel-7.8.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

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