Bug 1805728

Summary:	[RHEL8/Bug] abrt rpm verify failed on /var/run/abrt missing after reboot
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Oliver Falk <ofalk>
Component:	abrt	Assignee:	abrt <abrt-devel-list>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	8.1	CC:	mkyral, msuchy
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release:	8.0
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Description Oliver Falk 2020-02-21 12:52:46 UTC

Description of problem:
abrt rpm installs dirs/files in /var/run/, however since /var/run is symlinked /run and /run is actually on tmpfs in default installs, that means an rpm verify will fail on /var/run/abrt if the machine is rebooted and abrtd isn't enabled to start upon boot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.10.9


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. # yum -y install abrt
2. # systemctl disable abrtd.service
2. # reboot
3. # rpm -V abrt

Actual results:

# rpm -V abrt
missing     /var/run/abrt

Expected results:
RPM verify should not report missing /var/run/abrt.


Additional info:
It's important to note that abrtd shall not start upon reboot, since it will create those entries.

I guess, %ghost in the %files section of the RPM spec file should help, but I'M too low on time to actually give this a try.

Customer case will be linked.

Comment 1 ekulik 2020-02-24 08:48:10 UTC

%ghost seems to do it for me.

Comment 3 ekulik 2020-02-25 09:54:22 UTC

Upstream PR: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/1454

Comment 4 ekulik 2020-02-26 14:42:19 UTC

Martin, can you take a look? This should be a walk in the park to verify.

Comment 5 Martin Kyral 2020-03-02 10:36:56 UTC

Easy to test -> qa_ack+

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:31:18 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (abrt bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:4435