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Description of problem:
Ater a fresh installation of pcp the pmcd deamon fails to start.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pcp-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. systemctl start pmcd.service

Actual results:
The pmcd deamon is not running, unable to connect...

Expected results:
The daemon is up, accepting connections.

Additional info:
cat /var/log/pcp/pmcd/pmcd.log says:

Log for pmcd on el-7-local started Wed Nov  6 06:34:20 2013

[Wed Nov  6 06:34:20] pmcd(12760) Error: Unable to set NSS export policy: Failure to load dynamic library
[Wed Nov  6 06:34:20] pmcd(12760) Error: pmcd not started due to errors!

Log finished Wed Nov  6 06:34:20 2013

This appears to be an NSS certificate-database configuration problem.

It seems unfortunate that pmcd fails entirely upon such a problem.  At
worst we should allow communication without SSL/TLS, e.g. over normal
TCP and definitely over local:.

It is also suspicious that we should be initializing nss to the "Export"
suite of ciphers, which probably unnecessarily weakens it.

nss-3.15.2-7.el7.x86_64
pcp-3.8.6-1.el7.x86_64

reproducible on tofan.yyz's rhel7 vm

See bug #1001841: nss-3.15.2-6 "disable ssl2 and the export cipher suites".

See also bug #1026677.
Open-coding a version of that nss patch within pcp.

(In reply to Frank Ch. Eigler from comment #1)
> It seems unfortunate that pmcd fails entirely upon such a problem.  At
> worst we should allow communication without SSL/TLS, e.g. over normal
> TCP and definitely over local:.

Opened upstream bug http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1035 to track this.

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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