Recommended update for systemd

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2022:1169-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5

An update that contains three features and has six fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for systemd fixes the following issues:

  • Core: make sure we always free the list of changes
  • Install: correctly report symlink creations
  • Core: make sure we generate a nicer error when a linked unit is attempted to be enabled
  • Install: unify checking whether operations may be applied to a unit file in a new function
  • Install: fix errno handling
  • Allow 'edit' and 'cat' on unloaded units
  • Don't open /var journals in volatile mode when runtime_journal==NULL
  • udev: handle duplicate device ID (bsc#1195529)
  • man: tweak description of auto/noauto (bsc#1191502)
  • systemd-coredump: allow setting external core size to infinity (bsc#1195899 jsc#SLE-23869 jsc#SLE-23871)
  • systemctl: exit with 1 if no unit files found (bsc#1193841)
  • umount: show correct error message
  • core/umount: fix unitialized fields in MountPoint
  • umount: Add more asserts and remove some unused arguments, fix memory leak
  • mount-util: fix fd_is_mount_point() when both the parent and directory are network fs (bsc#1190984)
  • busctl: add a timestamp to the output of the busctl monitor command (bsc#1180225 jsc#SLE-21861)

Special Instructions and Notes:

  • Please reboot the system after installing this update.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2022-1169=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2022-1169=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2022-1169=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2022-1169=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • systemd-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-devel-228-157.38.4
    • libudev-devel-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debugsource-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • systemd-bash-completion-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • libsystemd0-228-157.38.4
    • udev-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-devel-228-157.38.4
    • libudev-devel-228-157.38.4
    • udev-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-sysvinit-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debugsource-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (x86_64)
    • systemd-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • systemd-bash-completion-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libsystemd0-228-157.38.4
    • udev-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-devel-228-157.38.4
    • libudev-devel-228-157.38.4
    • udev-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-sysvinit-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debugsource-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (s390x x86_64)
    • systemd-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • libsystemd0-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-228-157.38.4
    • udev-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-devel-228-157.38.4
    • libudev-devel-228-157.38.4
    • udev-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debuginfo-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-sysvinit-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debugsource-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (noarch)
    • systemd-bash-completion-228-157.38.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (x86_64)
    • systemd-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libudev1-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4
    • systemd-debuginfo-32bit-228-157.38.4

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