Bug 2053368

Summary:	installing dovecot-pgsql via kickstart fails on Error in POSTIN scriptlet
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Jiri Jaburek <jjaburek>
Component:	dovecot	Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Evgeny Fedin <efedin>
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Version:	9.0	CC:	efedin
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Description Jiri Jaburek 2022-02-11 05:49:47 UTC

Description of problem:

When installing RHEL using an Anaconda kickstart, putting just dovecot inside %packages seems to work fine. However when adding dovecot-pgsql, the installation process aborts with


Error

The following error occurred while installing the payload. This is a fatal error
and installation will be aborted.

DNF error: Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package dovecot

Press ENTER to exit:


Dovecot seems to be the only package in RHEL's BaseOS + AppStream that does this.

I haven't been able to figure out what exactly is the relation to dovecot-pgsql, the package doesn't seem to have any postinstall scripts and even the one in dovecot should have succeeded.

The only thing I can think of is the last line of dovecot's postinstall scriptlet failing:

  [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon -R /run/dovecot

If this doesn't find executable /sbin/restorecon, the entire shell fails with non-zero. Regardless of whether this fixes the issue, I'd probably suggest using if/fi, or at least the '|| :' syntax from earlier in the same script.

In fact, the line probably shouldn't exist at all, not only is /run transient (tmpfs), but Anaconda does a global restorecon before reboot + the runtime SELinux policy takes care of context transitions.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dovecot-2.3.16-1.el9

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 10:36:47 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 (Moderate: dovecot security 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/RHSA-2022:8208