Recommended update for systemd

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:0233-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 Business Critical Linux 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.1

An update that has seven fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for systemd fixes the following issues:

  • Added a timestamp to the output of the busctl monitor command (bsc#1180225)
  • Fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug when attempting to close the journal file handle (bsc#1179824)
  • Improved the caching of cgroups member mask (bsc#1175458)
  • Fixed the dependency definition of sound.target (bsc#1179363)
  • Fixed a bug that could lead to a potential error, when daemon-reload is called between StartTransientUnit and scope_start() (bsc#1174436)
  • time-util: treat /etc/localtime missing as UTC (bsc#1141597)
  • Removed mq-deadline selection from 60-io-scheduler.rules (bsc#1177490)

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:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-233=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • libsystemd0-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • libsystemd0-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-coredump-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-sysvinit-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-container-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-container-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • libudev1-234-24.67.1
    • libudev-devel-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-coredump-234-24.67.1
    • libudev1-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • udev-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-devel-234-24.67.1
    • udev-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-debugsource-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-234-24.67.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • systemd-bash-completion-234-24.67.1
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP2 (x86_64)
    • systemd-32bit-234-24.67.1
    • libsystemd0-32bit-234-24.67.1
    • libsystemd0-32bit-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • libudev1-32bit-234-24.67.1
    • systemd-32bit-debuginfo-234-24.67.1
    • libudev1-32bit-debuginfo-234-24.67.1

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