[Spacewalk-list] SW 1.9 abrt crash upload fails

[Milan Zazrivec]

> Hello list,
> I've upgraded my spacewalk server to version 1.9 (rhel 5 pgsql).
> I've updated spacewalk client binairies on a test client, and installed
> spacewalk-abrt package.
> I've rebooted both the server and the client.
> 
> To test abrt crash upload functionnality, i've launched the following
> compex script in background:
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> while :
> do
>    sleep 1
> done
> 
> Than, I killed it using kill -SIGSEGV 3952
> 
> As expected, abrt detected the crash... but then spacewalk crashed!
> Mar  7 15:29:42  abrt[3967]: Saved core dump of pid 3952 (/bin/bash) to
> /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-03-07-15:29:42-3952 (413696 bytes)
> Mar  7 15:29:42  abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2013-03-07-15:29:42-3952' creation
> detected
> Mar  7 15:29:50  abrtd: Sending an email...
> Mar  7 15:29:50  abrtd: Email was sent to: root at localhost
> Mar  7 15:29:51 abrtd: New problem directory
> /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2013-03-07-15:29:42-3952, processing
> Mar  7 15:29:51  abrtd: An error has occurred:
> Mar  7 15:29:51  abrtd: Error communicating with server. The message was:
> Mar  7 15:29:51  abrtd: While running 'abrt.create_crash': caught
> Mar  7 15:29:51 tu-spa-d13 abrtd: exceptions.TypeError : expected a
> character buffer object
> Mar  7 15:29:51 tu-spa-d13 abrtd:
> Mar  7 15:29:51 tu-spa-d13 abrtd: See /var/log/up2date for more information
> 
> 
> In up2date log, I have:
> <class 'up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError'>: Error
> communicating with server. The message was:
> While running 'abrt.create_crash': caught
> exceptions.TypeError : expected a character buffer object
> 
> 
> I've checked httpd error log, I found this:
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error] Exception Handler Information
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error] Traceback (most recent call last):
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line
> 122, in call_function
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]     response = apply(func, params)
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]   File
> "/usr/share/rhn/server/handlers/xmlrpc/abrt.py", line 170, in create_crash
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]     server_crash_dir =
> get_crash_path(str(server_org_id), str(self.server_id),
> crash_data['crash']) [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnLib.py", line 218, in
> get_crash_path
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]     if _is_secure_path(path):
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnLib.py", line 211, in
> _is_secure_path
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error]     return not path.startswith(('/',
> '../'))
> [Thu Mar 07 15:29:51 2013] [error] TypeError: expected a character buffer
> object
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Heya -- you're not doing anything wrong. This is a valid bug in
spacewalk-backend which will show on a RHEL-5 Spacewalk (server) only.

This is the fix you need on your server:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spacewalk.git/commit/?h=SPACEWALK-1.9&id=1d43a4da660df4ba4c8b4c85339bfbda65c0d049

These are spacewalk-backend packages for Spacewalk 1.9 containing
the fix above:

http://koji.spacewalkproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=30602

I'll try to get these packages to Spacewalk 1.9 repo in a near future.

Thank you for your report.
-Milan Zázrivec