[systemd-devel] systemd prerelease 242-rc2

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:38 PM Mike Gilbert <floppym at gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 11:23 AM Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Do, 04.04.19 10:06, Mike Gilbert (floppym at gentoo.org) wrote:
> >
> > > I pushed this out to our unstable testers yesterday, and received a
> > > couple bug reports this morning. I have requested that they be
> > > forwarded upstream, but wanted to point them out in case that doesn't
> > > happen promptly.
> > >
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/682492
> > > sys-apps/systemd-242_rc2 boot fails: sd-passwd takes no arguments
> >
> > Most likely fixed by
> > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/65e5d6934ec85febb6eb64e18ce829ddc9dee497
> > already.
> >
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/682488
> > > sys-apps/systemd-242_rc2: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed to set up
> > > special execution directory in /var/lib: Not a directory
> >
> > Smells like a belated result of us dropping DynamicUser=1 from
> > timesyncd.
> >
> > Right now, systemd will automatically migrate the state directory for
> > services that have DynamicUser=0 to a newer version that has
> > DynamicUser=1, but not back. We should probably add that too.
> >
> > Anyway, it was systemd v240 where we dropped the DynamicUser=1 thing
> > already, hence not precisely a v242 regression...
>
> These users probably upgraded from v239 to v241 to v242-rc2 over the
> course of a few months. We never shipped v240.

Sorry, I am mistaken; we did ship v240, but never marked it "stable".