Bug 883124

Summary:	ovirt-guest-agent will not run with pam_namespace polyinstantiated directories
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Luke Meyer <lmeyer>
Component:	ovirt-guest-agent	Assignee:	Vinzenz Feenstra [evilissimo] <vfeenstr>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Luke Meyer <lmeyer>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bazulay, dyasny, iheim, mkenneth, sgrinber, sreichar
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Target Release:	3.2.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	virt
Fixed In Version:	sf10	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: The ovirtagent user had their home on root (/) which was not writable for the user, so the login of the ovirtagent failed. Consequence: The ovirt-guest-agent service wasn't able to run. Fix: The ovirtagent user now get's a home directory in /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent Result: The now successfully starts when polyinstanticated directories via pam_namespace are configured.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2013-06-10 20:12:25 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	922807

Description Luke Meyer 2012-12-03 20:19:13 UTC

Description of problem:
Per bug 872613 - having a home directory of / causes problems under pam_namespace polyinstantiation, which causes the agent to fail with very little sign of what's going wrong.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhevm-guest-agent-1.0.5-3.el6ev.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install agent on guest VM
2. Install pam_openshift from the OpenShift Infrastructure channel or otherwise enable polyinstantiation with pam_namespace
3. Add to /etc/pam.d/runuser "session required pam_namespace.so no_unmount_on_close"
4. Try to (re)start the agent  

Actual results:
Starting ovirt-guest-agent: could not open session
                                                           [FAILED]

Expected results:
Normal startup

Additional info:
A simple fix for this is to give ovirtagent a home directory other than "/" - I changed it to /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent in /etc/passwd and it started fine again.

Comment 1 Luke Meyer 2012-12-03 20:36:36 UTC

*** Bug 872613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Vinzenz Feenstra [evilissimo] 2013-03-11 08:20:30 UTC

Merged upstream as: 517cf4082f027e2496128e8bfe4fdf2149fa33a0

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-guest-agent.git;a=commit;h=517cf4082f027e2496128e8bfe4fdf2149fa33a0

Comment 10 Cheryn Tan 2013-04-09 04:17:18 UTC

This bug is currently attached to errata RHEA-2013:14354. If this change is not to be documented in the text for this errata please either remove it from the errata, set the requires_doc_text flag to minus (-), or leave a "Doc Text" value of "--no tech note required" if you do not have permission to alter the flag.

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Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-10 20:12:25 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, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2013-0914.html