Bug#851438: Please restart journald on upgrades

[Jarek Kamiński]

Package: systemd
Version: 232-8
Severity: minor
File: /lib/systemd/systemd-journald

Hello,

W dniu 14.01.2017 o 18:58, Michael Biebl pisze:
> Am 14.01.2017 um 18:40 schrieb Jarek Kamiński:
>> #771122 explains that journald can't be restarted, as all stdout and
>> stderr fds used by daemons to log would be lost. If I understand
>> correctly, that was fixed in v219[1] though:
>>>         * systemd now provides a way to store file descriptors
>>>           per-service in PID 1.This is useful for daemons to ensure
>>>           that fds they require are not lost during a daemon
>>>           restart. The fds are passed to the deamon on the next
>>>           invocation in the same way socket activation fds are
>>>           passed. This is now used by journald to ensure that the
>>>           various sockets connected to all the system's stdout/stderr
>>>           are not lost when journald is restarted. File descriptors
>>>           may be stored in PID 1 via the sd_pid_notify_with_fds() API,
>>>           an extension to sd_notify(). Note that a limit is enforced
>>>           on the number of fds a service can store in PID 1, and it
>>>           defaults to 0, so that no fds may be stored, unless this is
>>>           explicitly turned on.
>>
>> Is it related, or am I mixing things? If yes, can #771122 be reverted?
> 
> It should be possible now, I think. That said, I feel a bit uneasy doing
> that so close to the freeze.
> Doing it early in the buster release cycle seems safer.

Fully agreed.

> Would you mind filing a bug report for that?

Certainly.


Thanks!


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'),
(100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to pl_PL)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.115
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-3
ii  libapparmor1    2.10.95-8
ii  libaudit1       1:2.6.7-1
ii  libblkid1       2.29-1
ii  libc6           2.24-8
ii  libcap2         1:2.25-1
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.7.3-3
ii  libgcrypt20     1.7.5-2
ii  libgpg-error0   1.26-1
ii  libidn11        1.33-1
ii  libip4tc0       1.6.0+snapshot20161117-4
ii  libkmod2        23-2
ii  liblz4-1        0.0~r131-2
ii  liblzma5        5.2.2-1.2
ii  libmount1       2.29-1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.4
ii  libseccomp2     2.3.1-2.1
ii  libselinux1     2.6-3
ii  libsystemd0     232-8
ii  mount           2.29-1
ii  util-linux      2.29-1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.14-1
ii  libpam-systemd  232-8

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-17
pn  systemd-container  <none>
ii  systemd-ui         3-4

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.126
ii  udev             232-8

-- no debconf information

-- 
pozdr(); // Jarek


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