Bug 967002

Summary: cloud-init should gracefully degrade when booted with selinux=0
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component: cloud-initAssignee: Garrett Holmstrom <gholms>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: apevec, gholms, Jan.van.Eldik, markmc, p, rjb
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Fixed In Version: cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc19 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Matthew Miller 2013-05-24 13:37:49 UTC
I know, Dan Walsh will weep (http://stopdisablingselinux.com/) but sometimes it's helpful for testing. Cloud-init currently completely bails in this situation; I think it should do what it can and move on.

Comment 1 Robert Brown 2013-07-08 00:03:10 UTC
+1, or at least make the log messages clearer. Here's what you see in /var/log/cloud-init.log when you boot with SELinux disabled.

Jul  7 16:44:12 localhost [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Restoring selinux mode for /var/lib/cloud (recursive=False)
Jul  7 16:44:12 localhost [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Restoring selinux mode for /var/lib/cloud/scripts (recursive=False)
Jul  7 16:44:12 localhost [CLOUDINIT] util.py[WARNING]: Failed to initialize, likely bad things to come!
Jul  7 16:44:12 localhost [CLOUDINIT] util.py[DEBUG]: Failed to initialize, likely bad things to come!


That's it. Googling does not easily turn up log messages that indicate this is a problem. Switching selinux to permissive fixes the problem and allows cloud-init to proceed without error.

Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2013-09-17 17:53:23 UTC
With cloud-init-0.7.2-1.fc19.noarch I'm seeing

  $> /usr/bin/cloud-init init
  ...
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 509, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 505, in main
    return functor(name, args)
  File "/usr/bin/cloud-init", line 256, in main_init
    iid = init.instancify()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 311, in instancify
    return self._reflect_cur_instance()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 268, in _reflect_cur_instance
    util.ensure_dirs(dir_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1229, in ensure_dirs
    ensure_dir(d, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1269, in ensure_dir
    chmod(path, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 1416, in chmod
    os.chmod(path, real_mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/util.py", line 184, in __exit__
    self.selinux.restorecon(path, recursive=self.recursive)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selinux/__init__.py", line 84, in restorecon
    status, oldcontext = lgetfilecon(path)
  OSError: [Errno 61] No data available

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-09-25 02:41:43 UTC
cloud-init-0.7.2-6.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cloud-init-0.7.2-6.fc20

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-09-25 02:43:03 UTC
cloud-init-0.7.2-6.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cloud-init-0.7.2-6.fc19

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-09-27 00:44:32 UTC
Package cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-17724/cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-09-27 01:20:00 UTC
cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc18

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-10-15 06:28:46 UTC
cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-10-18 19:46:20 UTC
cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-10-18 19:54:36 UTC
cloud-init-0.7.2-7.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.