Bug 227315

Summary:	sealert doesn't seem to work if auditd/audispd is restarted
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Antill <james.antill>
Component:	setroubleshoot	Assignee:	John Dennis <jdennis>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description James Antill 2007-02-05 05:59:38 UTC

Description of problem:

 If I restart auditd/audispd then setroubleshootd reconnects, and I'm getting
sealerts in /var/log/messages ... but I don't seem to be getting the GUI panel
updates, I'm not 100% but I think I should be.
 strace on the sealert -s shows:

ioctl(9, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
poll( <unfinished ...>

...I'll update if it comes back.

Comment 1 James Antill 2007-02-05 06:00:39 UTC

 Removing some of the options I'd left on. Sorry steve.

Comment 2 James Antill 2007-02-05 06:03:21 UTC

 Well, waiting a while longer I've got a bunch of lines like:

poll([{fd=9, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN}, {fd=17,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=10,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 7, -1) = 1
ioctl(9, FIONREAD, [32])                = 0
read(9, "p\0\30\313\1\0\300\1\236$\340\2\1\0\0\0\0\33~\220\364\32"..., 32) = 32
ioctl(9, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
poll(

...so something is certainly happening. But I'm still getting sealert messages
in /var/log/messages and nothing in my panel notify area.

Comment 3 James Antill 2007-02-05 13:03:17 UTC

 So after still getting the sealert messages this morning I looked again at the
running procs. and discovered:

% ps axuwZ | egrep trouble
system_u:system_r:setroubleshootd_t root  2064  0.0  0.8  43112 12780 ?       
Ssl  Feb01   0:08 /usr/bin/python -E /usr/sbin/setroubleshootd
root:system_r:unconfined_t      root     31236  0.4  0.8  44192 13856 ?       
Ssl  00:37   1:52 /usr/bin/python -E /usr/sbin/setroubleshootd restart

...so this bug might only occur when you restart and go from having
setroubleshoot transition to not-transition. Doing a sertvice stop/service start
and then manually kill'ing the old version has got rid of the messages, anyway.

Comment 4 John Dennis 2007-08-27 18:28:42 UTC

I'm confused, I don't see how setroubleshootd could ever have been started with
the 'restart' option which is showing up in the ps output, that's not what the
init.d script does on a service restart. It looks like somehow you got two
copies of setroubleshootd running which would be a problem. 

I just tested service start, service restart, and service stop with current
versions and I don't see any problems.

Do you still believe this is a current bug?

Comment 5 John Dennis 2008-01-09 19:25:43 UTC

closing as the requested information has not been provided. Also the whole
mechanism of how setroubleshoot and sealert interact has been rewritten since
this bug was originally filed (for example sealert now listens on the dbus
system bus for changes in the running status of setroublehsootd).