Bug 1158474 - Gnome Abrt ignores GNOME proxy settings
Summary: Gnome Abrt ignores GNOME proxy settings
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: abrt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-29 13:13 UTC by Pavel Malyshev
Modified: 2019-01-11 04:34 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version: abrt-2.11.1-2.fc29
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-01-11 04:34:14 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Pavel Malyshev 2014-10-29 13:13:05 UTC
Description of problem:

gnome-abrt cannot report problems when behind a proxy without a direct access to Internet.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-abrt-0.3.7-3.fc20.x86_64

abrt-addon-ccpp-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-retrace-client-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-addon-python3-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-addon-vmcore-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-libs-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-desktop-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-plugin-bodhi-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-dbus-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-gui-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-addon-xorg-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-gui-libs-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-addon-python-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-addon-pstoreoops-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-java-connector-1.0.10-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-python-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
abrt-python3-2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64


How reproducible:
easily


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Network without a direct access to Internet. DNS does not resolve Internet-wide address. Internet access is available via HTTP proxy
2. ABRT has some crash to report
3. run gnome-abrt
4. choose a crash to report
5. press "report" button


Actual results:
A messagebox "An error occured while connecting to 'retrace.fedoraproject.org'" appears
Log says "Can't resolve host name 'retrace.fedoraproject.org'. NSS error -5973."


Expected results:
Abrt connects to required services via HTTP proxy and is able to report crash.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jakub Filak 2014-10-29 13:48:25 UTC
Thanks for the report! How do you configure proxy settings?

Comment 2 Pavel Malyshev 2014-10-29 20:45:23 UTC
Hello.


I've tried manual proxy configuration for HTTP and HTTPS protocols in Gnome Settings.
I've also tried automatic proxy configuration (with and without URL to .pac file).

My .bashrc also has http_proxy and https_proxy exports, but I don't think they are used by gnome-abrt.


In our office DNS server resolves only internal hosts, so to access public Internet applications have to connect via a proxy embedding a target hostname into a request.

Comment 3 Jakub Filak 2014-11-05 10:06:23 UTC
ABRT makes HTTP requests using curl and thus http_proxy and https_proxy are used by gnome-abrt.

Please verify that your .bashrc exports work correctly.

If I put an invalid value to https_proxy, gnome-abrt fails to report:

$ https_proxy=invalid-https-proxy
$ export https_proxy
$ gnome-abrt
  -> Report
 
  ...
  Failed to upload uReport to the server 'https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf' with curl: Could not resolve proxy: invalid-https-proxy
  ...

Comment 4 Pavel Malyshev 2014-11-05 13:46:59 UTC
First of all, gnome-abrt should use Gnome settings.


When I start gnome-abrt from console:
[cqx874@cqx874-tmp ~]$ export http_proxy=http://wwwgate0.mot.com:1080/
[cqx874@cqx874-tmp ~]$ export https_proxy=http://wwwgate0.mot.com:1080/
[cqx874@cqx874-tmp ~]$ env | grep proxy
http_proxy=http://wwwgate0.mot.com:1080/
https_proxy=http://wwwgate0.mot.com:1080/
no_proxy=127.0.0.1,localhost,*.lync.com
[cqx874@cqx874-tmp ~]$ gnome-abrt


and press "Report" button I have this error:
-- Running report_uReport ---
('report_uReport' completed successfully)

--- Running analyze_CCpp ---
Ok to upload core dump? (It may contain sensitive data). If your answer is 'No', a stack trace will be generated locally. (It may download a huge amount of data). 'YES'
Querying server settings
An error occurred while connecting to 'retrace.fedoraproject.org'
Can't resolve host name 'retrace.fedoraproject.org'. NSS error -5973.
Do you want to generate a stack trace locally? (It may download a huge amount of data but reporting can't continue without stack trace). 'NO'
('analyze_CCpp' exited with 1)


Please note, that whatever program tried to connect to retrace.fedoraproject.org, it failed to _resolve_ the address, because our DNS server won't resolve public hostnames.


But when I use wget to download some page via proxy, I get:
[cqx874@cqx874-tmp ~]$ wget https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/summary/ -O tmp/output.html
--2014-11-05 16:44:28--  https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/summary/
Resolving wwwgate0.mot.com (wwwgate0.mot.com)... 140.101.21.130
Connecting to wwwgate0.mot.com (wwwgate0.mot.com)|140.101.21.130|:1080... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘tmp/output.html’

    [        <=>                                                                                                                                                               ] 248 903      130KB/s   in 1,9s   

2014-11-05 16:44:33 (130 KB/s) - ‘tmp/output.html’ saved [248903]



Because wget does not resolve retrace.fedoraproject.org to connect, it resolves my proxy name to IP only.

Comment 5 Jakub Filak 2014-11-05 14:12:16 UTC
(In reply to Pavel Malyshev from comment #4)
> First of all, gnome-abrt should use Gnome settings.

I agree and I'll add support for GNOME proxy settings soon.

> 
> and press "Report" button I have this error:
> -- Running report_uReport ---
> ('report_uReport' completed successfully)
> 

https_proxy was used here. 'report_uReport' communicates with 'retrace.fedoraproject.org' too.

> --- Running analyze_CCpp ---
> Ok to upload core dump? (It may contain sensitive data). If your answer is
> 'No', a stack trace will be generated locally. (It may download a huge
> amount of data). 'YES'
> Querying server settings
> An error occurred while connecting to 'retrace.fedoraproject.org'
> Can't resolve host name 'retrace.fedoraproject.org'. NSS error -5973.
> Do you want to generate a stack trace locally? (It may download a huge
> amount of data but reporting can't continue without stack trace). 'NO'
> ('analyze_CCpp' exited with 1)
> 

'analyze_CCpp' is the only piece of ABRT which does not use curl and HTTP proxy support needs to be added to this tool. Do you think you could file a new bug against abrt component for this issue?

Comment 6 Pavel Malyshev 2014-11-06 13:31:14 UTC
Sure!
Submitted: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161138
Thanks!

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2015-05-29 13:11:04 UTC
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Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 19:31:32 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
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Comment 9 Jakub Filak 2016-07-22 07:41:44 UTC
Upstream issue: https://github.com/abrt/gnome-abrt/issues/173

Comment 10 Jan Kurik 2018-05-31 09:07:40 UTC
This bug is currently reported against a Fedora version which is already unsuported.
I am changing the version to '27', the latest supported release.

Please check whether this bug is still an issue on the '27' release.
If you find this bug not being applicable on this release, please close it.

Comment 11 Fahad Alduraibi 2018-07-05 11:07:10 UTC
Seems to be an issue with Fedora 28 as well.

Comment 12 Fahad Alduraibi 2018-07-05 11:27:12 UTC
Running gnome-abrt from command line I get this when trying to report a bug

```
WARNING:root:Can't initialize gnome-abrt's DBus services: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(gnome-abrt:13020): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 14:12:24.051: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed
Failed to open connection to D-Bus session bus: The connection is closed

(abrt:13025): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 14:12:30.784: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed
```

And looking at network traffic I see it trying to connect to the server directly on port 443

Comment 13 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 14:17:18 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 27 is nearing its end of life.
On 2018-Nov-30  Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 27. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as
EOL if it remains open with a Fedora  'version' of '27'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 27 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 14 Rafal Luzynski 2018-11-27 21:17:04 UTC
I think that it is still worth to work on so I'm changing the Fedora version to Rawhide.

Comment 15 Matej Marušák 2019-01-08 10:50:23 UTC
Changed in commit https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/f1d99e1d7593ab49147268b383cc82acbb0d94c1

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2019-01-08 14:22:13 UTC
abrt-2.11.1-2.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b74a80dd86

Comment 17 Rafal Luzynski 2019-01-09 23:10:45 UTC
If it's a bug in abrt rather than gnome-abrt, shouldn't we change the Component field of this bug report?

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2019-01-10 22:14:54 UTC
abrt-2.11.1-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b74a80dd86

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2019-01-11 04:34:14 UTC
abrt-2.11.1-2.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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