[Spacewalk-list] 'rhncfg-client verify' traceback

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:32:54AM +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm getting a taceback when running rhncfg-client verify on a newly
> built RHEL6 node.  I hacked
> /usr/share/rhn/config_client/rhncfgcli_verify.py to print the name of
> the file it is processing and I find that it is failing on
> /etc/auto.master.
> 
> rhncfg-client verify
> Using server name 172.22.106.16
> /etc/auto.home
> /etc/auto.hp
> /etc/auto.master
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rhncfg-client", line 34, in <module>
>     sys.exit(Main().main() or 0)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/rhn_main.py", line 184, in main
>     handler.run()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/config_client/rhncfgcli_verify.py", line 83, in run
>     ret_dict = self._process_file(src, dst, file, ftype, file_info)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/config_client/rhncfgcli_verify.py", line 259,
> in _process_file
>     dst_selinux = lgetfilecon(dst)[1]
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> ls -lZ /etc/auto.master
> -rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0       /etc/auto.master
> 
> Anyway, this small patch silences the error.  Not sure if this is the
> right way to handle it though.
> 
> diff -uw /usr/share/rhn/config_client/rhncfgcli_verify.py.orig
> /usr/share/rhn/config_client/rhncfgcli_verify.py
> --- /usr/share/rhn/config_client/rhncfgcli_verify.py.orig	2011-11-29
> 10:29:13.194363922 +0800
> +++ /usr/share/rhn/config_client/rhncfgcli_verify.py	2011-11-29
> 10:30:38.706358435 +0800
> @@ -248,8 +248,11 @@
>              src_selinux = info['selinux_ctx']
>              if src_selinux:
>                  if not stat_err:
> -                    dst_selinux = lgetfilecon(dst)[1]
> -                    if dst_selinux == None:
> +                    try:
> +                        dst_selinux = lgetfilecon(dst)[1]
> +                        if dst_selinux == None:
> +                            dst_selinux = ""
> +                    except:
>                          dst_selinux = ""
>                  else:
>                      dst_selinux = "missing"

Can you investigate in more depth why you'd get that No such file or
directory error?

If you do

	python -c 'from selinux import lgetfilecon; print lgetfilecon("/etc/auto.master")'

-- what do you get? In what context does the rhncfg-client run
on your system?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat