Comment 29 for bug 1988119

Hello everyone,

I know there are quite a few people watching this bug, so I will provide a status update.

The test package has been looking good throughout our internal testing, and we have proceeded to build the next systemd update, version 237-3ubuntu10.55, and it is currently in the bionic-security -proposed ppa.

If you would like to help test, that would be greatly appreciated. Please use a fresh VM on Azure, and please don't put the package into production just yet.

Instructions to install (On a Bionic system):
1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-security-proposed/ppa
2) sudo apt update
3) sudo apt install libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 libudev1 systemd systemd-sysv udev
4) sudo apt-cache policy systemd | grep Installed
Installed: 237-3ubuntu10.55
5) sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-security-proposed-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list
6) sudo apt update

From there you can run the reproducer:

$ sudo udevadm trigger && sudo systemctl restart systemd-networkd
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (172.253.122.138) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from bh-in-f138.1e100.net (172.253.122.138): icmp_seq=1 ttl=103 time=1.67 ms

if you do test, comment here on how it went. Again, please don't put the package into production until it has had a little more testing, and we will get this released to the world as quickly and safely as we can.

Thanks,
Matthew