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Bug 2042879

Summary: "udevadm undefined symbol" error when updating NetworkManager and systemd-libs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Renaud Métrich <rmetrich>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal>
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Version: 8.5CC: dtardon, systemd-maint-list, zbyszek
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Description Renaud Métrich 2022-01-20 09:58:03 UTC
Description of problem:

When updating the system fully from 8.3 to 8.5, a customer is seeing the following error messages while NetworkManager rpm executes the post-installation scripts:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
/usr/bin/udevadm: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/udevadm: undefined symbol: ifname_valid, version SD_SHARED
/usr/bin/udevadm: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/udevadm: undefined symbol: ifname_valid, version SD_SHARED
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

The root cause is symbol "ifname_valid" exported by libsystemd-shared was renamed into "ifname_valid_full" with systemd-239-51.
At the time of the update, older udevadm is still executing because systemd-udev package was not updated yet, but systemd-libs package was already updated.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

systemd-239-41 -> systemd-239-51


How reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a RHEL8.3 system
2. Update NetworkManager + systemd-libs

  # yum -y update NetworkManager systemd-libs

Actual results:

[...]
  Running scriptlet: systemd-libs-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64                                                           1/1 
  Upgrading        : systemd-libs-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64                                                          1/18 
  Running scriptlet: systemd-libs-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64                                                          1/18 
 :
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-1:1.32.10-4.el8.x86_64                                                       6/18 
  Upgrading        : NetworkManager-1:1.32.10-4.el8.x86_64                                                       6/18 
  Running scriptlet: NetworkManager-1:1.32.10-4.el8.x86_64                                                       6/18 
/usr/bin/udevadm: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/udevadm: undefined symbol: ifname_valid, version SD_SHARED
/usr/bin/udevadm: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/udevadm: undefined symbol: ifname_valid, version SD_SHARED
 :
  Upgrading        : systemd-udev-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64                                                          9/18 
  Running scriptlet: systemd-udev-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64                                                          9/18 
 :


Expected results:

systemd-udev updated before NetworkManager

Additional info:

- Checking systemd.spec file, I can see that systemd-udev package has no dependency on "systemd-libs" but only "systemd".

  Trying to add the dependency to force package installation at same time doesn't help, so I don't know exactly which fix is needed here.

- Checking NetworkManager.spec file, I can see there is a dependency on "systemd" only.

  Adding a dependency on systemd-udev in NetworkManager package **fixes** the issue, but I think it should be systemd's job to make sure all systemd packages are updated simultaneously.

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2022-01-20 10:36:24 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1906010. The infra to make a fix is upstream, and
then some work will be needed in the spec file to actually make use of this.

Comment 2 David Tardon 2022-01-20 10:58:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2012123 ***