RHBA-2024:11158 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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):

• Idle session setting kills the GDM process (JIRA:RHEL-19215)
• User logins are super slow when system has tons of disks attached (JIRA:RHEL-5877)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• RHEL-19215 - Idle session setting kills the GDM process
• RHEL-5877 - User logins are super slow when system has tons of disks attached

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)