Container running systemd fails to run after upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5

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Issue

  • Container running systemd fails to run/start with an error similar to the following:
# docker run -ti registry.access.redhat.com/rhel7/rhel:latest /usr/sbin/init
    ...
    Failed to create cgroup /system.slice/docker-15fcda4a7f4b4c47758e212786b2aa5af27e39fd8ff9703863a26b6cdaf4792a.scope/system.slice/systemd-journald.service: Permission denied

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 and newer
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.5 and newer
  • docker-1.13.1-58.git87f2fab.el7 and newer
  • selinux-policy-3.13.1-192.el7.noarch.rpm and newer

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