Ceph systemd services log "Unknown lvalue" messages

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Environment

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP 1

Situation

The following messages are logged to "/var/log/messages" and / or can be seen when looking at the journalctl output for the ceph-mon*, ceph-mgr* and ceph-osd* services:

systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-mgr@.service:15: Unknown lvalue 'LockPersonality' in section 'Service'
...
systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service:16: Unknown lvalue 'LockPersonality' in section 'Service'

Resolution

The messages are cosmetic and can be ignored.

Cause

In SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 systemd doesn't recognize the lvalue (directive) in the unit file. Unrecognized directives in unit files are however simply ignored.

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