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Description of problem: The cockpit team is working on a new feature to connect to machines which don't have any Cockpit packages installed. For that we use libsystemd's sd-bus API. We noticed that we get a lot of failures like this:

   InterruptedError: [Errno 4] sd_bus_add_match: Interrupted system call

when setting up D-Bus watches. This does not happen on RHEL 9 and current Fedora, as it was fixed upstream already:

   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/b3d06b9226db96fddb6bb45a4708e2e8d413d91d
   https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/3022916b4d2483452c3ddbbac9ee7c4372b1cb46

We have a workaround in Cockpit:

    https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/commit/de5b3562827f2662df11621cff3e55a717e55967

But this is suboptimal -- it can happen to other code paths as well, and likely also to other consumers of the sd-bus API.


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

systemd-libs-239-72.el8.x86_64


How reproducible: Very reliably when running Cockpit's test suite (about 10 in 300 tests fail on this, like in https://cockpit-logs.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/pull-18318-20230216-065702-d382fce4-centos-8-stream-pybridge/log.html#69 .

However, I don't have an isolated standalone reproducer.

Let's make this explicit: Could these two commits be backported to RHEL, please?

(In reply to Martin Pitt from comment #1)
> Let's make this explicit: Could these two commits be backported to RHEL,
> please?

Yes, they can. This came around before (bug 2137584), but it was just a potential issue then, so we decided not to do anything in RHEL-8.

*** Bug 2210317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

fix merged to github main branch -> https://github.com/redhat-plumbers/systemd-rhel8/pull/372

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (systemd bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:7097