Bug#778554: unblock: systemd/215-12

[Niels Thykier]

Control: tags -1 = d-i

On 2015-02-16 17:16, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> systemd 215-12 hit unstable three days ago with some RC/important/safe
> So far there have been no regression reports. At the time of this
> writing there are now no RC bugs left \o/
> 
> I attach the full debdiff between 215-11 and -12, but as usual I also
> link to the individual commits on anonscm. Unfortunately the latter
> are a bit noisy, as the implementation of the fixes was discussed
> several times and changed a bit.
> 
> Note that there are zero changes for udev and hence the udebs (for
> d-i).
> 

Sorry, this one fell through on my end.  It is ok from my PoV, CC'ing
KiBi for a d-i ack (out of principle).  Quoting you in full for KiBi's
convenience.

> Annotated changelog:
> 
> | systemd (215-12) unstable; urgency=medium
> | 
> |   [ Martin Pitt ]
> |   * debian/udev.README.Debian: Trim the parts which are obsolete, wrong, or
> |     described in manpages. Only keep the Debian specific bits.
> |     (Part of #776546)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=a76b454
> 
> |   * Actually install udev's README.Debian when building for Debian.
> |     (Closes: #776546)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=d26405c8
> 
> Documentation cleanup. Note that this was requested/pre-approved by Niels.
> 
> |   * Only start logind if dbus is installed. This fixes the noisy startup
> |     failure in environments without dbus such as LXC containers or servers.
> |     (part of #772700)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=a7d7679
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=0d601f8
>     (update/cleanup)
> 
> |   * Add getty-static.service unit which starts getty at .service on tty 2 to 6 if
> |     dbus is not installed, and hence logind cannot auto-start them on demand.
> |     (Closes: #772700)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=c4b5782f0
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=965ef72
>     (cleanup of the previous two commits)
> 
> RC bug (with 3 duplicates). This restores VT functionality on systems
> without dbus (i. e. mainly servers) as it is under sysvinit, and
> quiesces logind failures there.
> 
> |   * Add unit-config autopkgtest to check systemd unit/sysv init enabling and
> |     disabling via systemctl. This avoids bugs like #777613 (did not affect
> |     unstable).
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=ec551e56
> 
> I used this to verify that 215 was not affected. I'd like to keep this
> in master, just to have it available for post-release bug
> fixes/verification.
> 
> |   * cgroup: Don't trim cgroup trees created by someone else, just the ones
> |     that systemd itself created. This avoids cleaning up empty cgroups from
> |     e.g. LXC. (Closes: #777601)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=255ae60
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=59d9202
>     (followup fix due to git pilot error on my side, sorry)
> 
> RC bug. This looks fairly intrusive (not at all in patch size, that's
> just a two-liner; but in effect), but as long as there is more than
> just systemd writing to /sys/fs/cgroups this errs on the safe side:
> now systemd will never cleanup empty cgroups that it didn't create by
> itself (realized_mask); before it cleaned up all controllers which
> are supported by the kernel (cgroup_supported).
> 
> |   * boot-and-services autopkgtest: Add CgroupsTest to check cgroup
> |     creation/cleanup behaviour. This reproduces #777601 and verifies the fix
> |     for it.
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=f1a42bae
> 
> tests == ♥  :-)
> 
> |   * rules: Fix by-path of mmc RPMB partitions and don't blkid them. Avoids
> |     kernel buffer I/O errors and timeouts. (LP: #1333140)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=21c55fb
> 
> This is https://launchpad.net/bugs/1333140 . Not quite RC, but a
> trivial patch which just blacklists mmcblk*-rpmb devices from getting
> touched by udev rules; they are rather mimosic and can't really opened
> or detected with blkid and other tools.
> 
> |   * Document systemctl --failed option. (Closes: #767267)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=8b3d324
> 
> Documentation (manpage) only, and an useful option.
> 
> |   [ Michael Biebl ]
> |   * core: Don't fail to run services in --user instances if $HOME is missing.
> |     (Closes: #759320)
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=e0b3ce3b
> 
> Not release critical, but causes annoyingly long delays during
> shutdown, and quite a simple fix.
> 
> |   [ Didier Roche ]
> |   * default-display-manager-generator: Avoid unnecessary /dev/null symlink and
> |     warning if there is no display-manager.service unit.
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=496110f3a
> 
> This fixes a corner case to avoid a useless warning, and this is a
> simple patch. This whole logic is tested by
> debian/tests/display-managers which which covers all scenarios we ran
> into so far, and it's still passing fine.
> 
> Thanks for considering! Please let me know if you have any doubt or
> questions.
> 
> While you are at it, would you mind having a look at #755722? I'd be
> interested in your opinion whether for jessie we should (1) ignore the
> problem, (2) apply the sysv behaviour compatible hwclock.service, or
> (3) boldly go and enable timesyncd.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 
> unblock systemd/215-12
>