Bug 1648701

Summary: SELinux is preventing mandb from 'search' accesses on the directory /var/lib/snapd.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mai Ling <mailinglists35>
Component: snapdAssignee: Zygmunt Krynicki <me>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Mai Ling 2018-11-11 20:02:30 UTC
Description of problem:
SELinux is preventing mandb from 'search' accesses on the directory /var/lib/snapd.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that mandb should be allowed search access on the snapd directory by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'mandb' --raw | audit2allow -M my-mandb
# semodule -X 300 -i my-mandb.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:mandb_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:snappy_var_lib_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/lib/snapd [ dir ]
Source                        mandb
Source Path                   mandb
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           snapd-2.36-1.fc29.x86_64
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.14.2-42.fc29.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 4.20.0-0.rc1.git1.2.fc30.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Tue Nov 6 22:29:17 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   4
First Seen                    2018-11-11 21:56:29 EET
Last Seen                     2018-11-11 21:56:29 EET
Local ID                      7b8b78bf-f8a3-4b27-b497-7b336e9899ce

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1541966189.890:391): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=6859 comm="mandb" name="snapd" dev="sda3" ino=95339 scontext=system_u:system_r:mandb_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:snappy_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0


Hash: mandb,mandb_t,snappy_var_lib_t,dir,search

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-42.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
component:      selinux-policy
reporter:       libreport-2.9.6
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.20.0-0.rc1.git1.2.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 1 akiross 2018-12-01 09:59:41 UTC
Description of problem:
If I use dnf to install a package, selinux warns me about this error, specifically, when running some scriptlets after the installations.
I can reproduce this problem by installing a package with dnf.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-42.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.6
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.19.4-300.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 2 deadrat 2018-12-23 19:34:00 UTC
Description of problem:
i was trying to run an electron wrapper app, so installed GConf2 and then tried to run the app. Honestly I don't know what i am doing. 

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-42.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.6
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.19.5-300.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 3 aten 2018-12-26 21:32:18 UTC
Description of problem:
 sudo dnf distro-sync --setopt=deltarpm=0
did this right after upgrade to F29, and Selinux triggered the error


Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.7
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Comment 4 aten 2019-01-19 20:11:57 UTC
Description of problem:
rebooted

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-47.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.19.15-300.fc29.x86_64
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Comment 5 Evgeny 2019-01-27 06:41:21 UTC
Description of problem:
Install or remove rpm pkg.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-47.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.20.3-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 6 gburlats 2019-01-30 09:35:40 UTC
Description of problem:
Problem happened few minutes after I updated my OS

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-47.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.20.4-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 7 Teoman ONAY 2019-02-04 08:19:46 UTC
Description of problem:
Just booted my laptop

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-47.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.20.4-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 8 Artemio 2019-02-07 18:51:51 UTC
*** Bug 1673682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 lucas 2019-02-08 14:10:59 UTC
Description of problem:
Background process.  Seems to be the mandb indexer trying to scan snapd

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-47.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.9.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.20.6-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 10 makruiten 2019-02-18 08:51:05 UTC
Description of problem:
Description of problem:
1. sudo dnf install snapd
2. sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
3. sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap

SELinux errors all over the place.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-48.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.20.8-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 11 Artemio 2019-03-12 12:43:01 UTC
*** Bug 1687816 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Artemio 2019-03-18 15:00:50 UTC
*** Bug 1689996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Jorge 2019-04-09 13:17:15 UTC
Description of problem:
NO puedo instalar Android Studio y Eclipse desde Snap

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-53.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.5-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 14 Zdenek Pytela 2019-04-15 15:47:18 UTC
*** Bug 1700019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Ryan 2019-05-04 22:51:19 UTC
Description of problem:
Installed snapd
$ sudo dnf install snapd
$ systemctl enable snapd
$ systemctl start snapd

After running this commands SE Linux continues to report bugs related to snaps. 

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-32.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.10-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 16 Ryan 2019-05-16 01:26:22 UTC
Description of problem:
Installed snapd and error started appearing. 

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-29.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.9-301.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 17 Paul Nickerson 2019-05-17 20:32:21 UTC
Description of problem:
I think this SELinux alert appears in my notification tray whenever I dnf install an update. It might also happen at system startup.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-35.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.16-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 18 seb 2019-05-24 08:52:26 UTC
Description of problem:
suite a la mise jour du kernal en .17 au demarrage de la session.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-37.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.17-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 19 Allan Poulsen 2019-06-01 09:46:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Automatic update

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-37.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.17-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 20 MC 2019-06-13 10:37:40 UTC
Description of problem:
SELinux alert appears while booting my laptop running Fedora 30 (Workstation Edition),
Kernel: Linux 5.1.7-300.fc30.x86_64.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-37.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.7-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 21 Lolita Haggard 2019-06-13 13:59:55 UTC
Description of problem:
This happens after a dnf update completes. The snapd package was removed sometime before I started to get these alerts. 

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-59.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.19-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 22 morgan read 2019-06-23 08:50:51 UTC
Description of problem:
I don't know...  (While browsing for new Wallpapers.)

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-39.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.12-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 23 Jani Heinonen 2019-06-25 19:17:16 UTC
Description of problem:
installed snapd and then caprine and spotify. Error came after Spotify had installed and running

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-39.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.12-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 24 morgan read 2019-06-30 11:44:57 UTC
Description of problem:
This might be triggered when gnome-software is run

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-39.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.12-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 25 Dirk Deimeke 2019-07-04 09:42:54 UTC
Description of problem:
Installed snap, got SELinux Alerts

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-39.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.0
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.15-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 26 Warren Lewis 2019-07-11 23:44:11 UTC
Description of problem:
Bug happened during a dnf update.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-39.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.0.11-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 27 a.wellbrock 2019-07-12 13:41:31 UTC
Description of problem:
I did `dnf update`. After update was completed, this occured.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-39.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.16-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 28 ctompkins 2019-07-12 19:40:52 UTC
Description of problem:
I Installed Snap via yum
Then I installed Spotify 
I then restarted XFCE.
When I updated DNF, I got the SE Linux alert.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-39.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.16-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 29 Tim Diillenberger 2019-07-18 21:43:43 UTC
Description of problem:
I installed Snapd on my fedora os and SELinux got a bug I want it to get access to Mandb.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-40.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.17-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 30 enricobe 2019-07-27 13:19:12 UTC
Description of problem:
After installing snapd

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-41.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.18-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 31 Peter 2019-07-28 18:31:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Every time there is an update for a week or two now.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-42.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.19-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 32 Peter 2019-08-01 19:04:13 UTC
Description of problem:
updated

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-42.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.19-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 33 dani 2019-08-04 03:31:27 UTC
Description of problem:
As per instructions on https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-fedora
1. sudo dnf install snapd
2. sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
3. reboot

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-42.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.20-300.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 34 Raman Gupta 2019-08-06 17:31:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Seems to happen with dnf operations. I have snapd installed and running.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-60.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.18-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 35 Anatoli Babenia 2019-08-08 04:24:03 UTC
Anybody to update the version to Fedora 30?

Comment 36 GEOF DUNCAN 2019-08-17 21:38:14 UTC
Description of problem:
Attempting to install Dropbox in Fedora MATE 30. 

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-43.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.2.8-200.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 37 Ted Roche 2019-08-21 14:59:11 UTC
Description of problem:
During routine dnf update 21-Aug-2019

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.2-64.fc29.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.1.21-200.fc29.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 38 hx 2019-08-26 13:44:57 UTC
Description of problem:
Installed npm / nodejs via Visual Studio Code terminal

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-43.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.2.8-200.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 39 Zbigniew Puszko 2019-08-29 05:46:59 UTC
Description of problem:
Just updating using dnfdragora

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-43.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         5.2.9-200.fc30.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 40 wd 2019-09-02 17:36:20 UTC
Description of problem:
This isue appears!

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.14.3-43.fc30.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.10.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
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Comment 41 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 18:44:06 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 29 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '29'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 29 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 42 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 23:36:03 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the
current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 43 Stephen Finucane 2020-11-09 09:50:40 UTC
This is still an issue on Fedora 33. I have relablled the filesystem. No impact, sadly.

Comment 44 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 17:20:29 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 33 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 33 on 2021-11-30.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '33'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 33 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 45 Ben Cotton 2021-11-30 16:36:32 UTC
Fedora 33 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2021-11-30. Fedora 33 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the
current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.