Bug 870224

We're planning to do it for F19

Hi folks, I have some problems with ABRT gui. Basically I am not able to get setroubleshoot crashes to this GUI. Actually I am able to get them but I need to check "All problems" but then I need to re-create a problem. Then I see them. Is this expected?

Also the gui does not work for me with the latest ABRT :(.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi folks, I have some problems with ABRT gui. Basically I am not able to get
> setroubleshoot crashes to this GUI. Actually I am able to get them but I
> need to check "All problems" but then I need to re-create a problem. Then I
> see them. Is this expected?

Yes, it is expected. If you don't provide the UID value then a crash is considered as root's crash. If you want to see setroubleshoot crashes in ABRT GUI as a particular user different than root neither you have to send user's UID along with setroubleshoot crash data or you have to check the "All problems" checkbox in the GUI.

Just wondering if there's an update on plans here? Obviously this didn't hit F19 and doesn't look like F20 either. I'm just curious.

Not sure if this is the plan, but seems to me that setroubleshoot can just go away entirely and be handled by abrt. AFAICT it's just: watch audit.log, slap some user friendly info on AVCs, report to user. The only interesting bit is that user friendly annotation.

Any current status on this?

I see this wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_ABRT_SELinux

But the steps don't seem to work for me at least after I uninstall setroubleshoot RPM

sealert is still installed by default for most desktop enviroments, and is still quite ugly and awkward, especially compared to latest abrt UI.

(In reply to Cole Robinson from comment #6)
> Any current status on this?
> 
> I see this wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_ABRT_SELinux
> 
> But the steps don't seem to work for me at least after I uninstall
> setroubleshoot RPM
> 
> sealert is still installed by default for most desktop enviroments, and is
> still quite ugly and awkward, especially compared to latest abrt UI.

FWIW we are very much hoping to get rid of sealert from Workstation and would love for ABRT to grow this functionality.

sealert was removed about a year ago. We no longer have any means of reporting selinux violations in Workstation.

(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #9)
> sealert was removed about a year ago. We no longer have any means of
> reporting selinux violations in Workstation.

/usr/bin/sealert is part of the setroubleshoot-server package and is installed on my system (which is not a fresh F29/F28 system but has seen a few dist-upgrades). We also still do have seapplet, which is part of setoubleshoot.

We removed it for F28, so you wouldn't notice if you upgraded from F27 or earlier.

https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/24

(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #11)
> We removed it for F28, so you wouldn't notice if you upgraded from F27 or
> earlier.
> 
> https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/24

I think I misunderstood your comment #9. sealert has been removed from the standard desktop image but not from the repos.

Honestly, nothing happened in past 8 years. It is just setting the expectations. I do not think we will do anything about this in next 8 years. Prior this work we will have to redesign gnome-abrt UI and just that is a lot of work.