Bug 1895467

Summary: fapolicyd breaks system upgrade, leaving system in dead state
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Renaud Métrich <rmetrich>
Component: fapolicydAssignee: Radovan Sroka <rsroka>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 8.3CC: amdas, bfinger, bhoefer, cchen, cww, dapospis, dasmokedog, emcnabb, jgalipea, jpazdziora, jss, jwboyer, klaas, ktordeur, lvrabec, mthacker, nkinder, pgregorycullen, qguo, rblakley, rmullett, rsroka, seldridg, thomas.juberg, xialiu, xiliang, yoyang, yuokada
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
Target Release: 8.0Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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: 1895513 1895514 1895515 1896875 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2020-11-11 19:37:57 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1895513, 1895514, 1895515, 1896875    
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postinstall scriptlets failing due to fapolicyd being active none

Description Renaud Métrich 2020-11-06 18:05:29 UTC 
Description of problem:

We start seeing a lot of customers breaking their systems upon executing "yum update" on a RHEL8.2 system upgrading to RHEL8.3.

The culprit is fapolicyd getting updated and denying execution of ldconfig / postinstall scripts.

This is CRITICAL issue: all customers having FIPS installed and STIG recommendations have fapolicyd running.

Additionally, we don't have a standard procedure to recover broken systems for now.


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

fapolicyd-1.0-3.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:

ALWAYS

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start fapolicyd
2. Update the system
Comment 1 Renaud Métrich 2020-11-06 18:25:57 UTC 
Created attachment 1727215 [details]
postinstall scriptlets failing due to fapolicyd being active
Comment 2 Renaud Métrich 2020-11-06 18:37:35 UTC 
Workaround:

1. Stop fapolicyd prior to upgrading

-or-

2. Stick to 8.2 release for now
Comment 18 dasmokedog 2020-11-09 20:15:13 UTC 
fyi https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5542661 now lists steps to recover a dead system.
Comment 19 John 2020-11-10 02:20:46 UTC 
nice one, guise.
Comment 21 John 2020-11-11 03:11:41 UTC 
I mean, seriously... does Red Hat do any testing *at all*?