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Bug 1458841 - yum crashes on update: /lib64/libnsssysinit.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure
Summary: yum crashes on update: /lib64/libnsssysinit.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSe...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: yum
Version: 7.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Michal Domonkos
QA Contact: Eva Mrakova
Lucie Vařáková
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1256920 1420851 1451275 1461531 1465896 1466368 1469518
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-05 15:32 UTC by Jiri Jaburek
Modified: 2020-12-14 08:48 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

Fixed In Version: yum-3.4.3-156.el7
Doc Type: Release Note
Doc Text:
Yum no longer crashes in certain _nss_ and _nspr_ update scenario Previously, when the *yum* installer updated a certain combination of _nss_ and _nspr_ package versions, the transaction sometimes terminated prematurely due to a following symbol lookup error: /lib64/libnsssysinit.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure This then caused stale rpm locks. *Yum* has been updated to correctly deal with this particular _nss_ and _nspr_ update scenario. As a result, *yum* does not terminate anymore in the described scenario.
Clone Of:
: 1469518 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-04-10 15:07:29 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
NSS workaround, changing nss-sysinit to avoid dependency on PR_GetEnvSecure (2.80 KB, patch)
2017-07-04 21:29 UTC, Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account)
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
OpenStack gerrit 483074 0 None MERGED Ensure yum cache is ready before update 2020-08-20 09:40:45 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1446093 0 unspecified CLOSED Minor update on OSP8 fails with stack UPDATE_FAILED error: resources.updatedeployment 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1451275 0 high CLOSED Minor upgrades giving error on yum update 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1455224 1 None None None 2021-01-20 06:05:38 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1469526 1 None None None 2021-01-20 06:05:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:0845 0 None None None 2018-04-10 15:07:59 UTC

Internal Links: 1446093 1451275 1455224 1469526

Description Jiri Jaburek 2017-06-05 15:32:04 UTC
(This might be yum/rhsm/nss issue, I'm filing it under yum as it seems the most likely candidate.)

Description of problem:

During a ZStream/EUS yum update from GA (RHEL-7.3, RHEL-7.2, maybe others), the following happens:

  Cleanup    : glibc-common-2.17-157.el7.x86_64                         249/251 
  Cleanup    : glibc-2.17-157.el7.x86_64                                250/251 
  Cleanup    : tzdata-2016g-2.el7.noarch                                251/251 
/usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libnsssysinit.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure

Afterwards, some yum database seems to be in an inconsistent state, but yum appears to recover on its next invocation:

  BDB2053 Freeing read locks for locker 0x129: 1364/140363639228224

(repeats ~30 times).


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a minimal RHEL-7.3 GA system from ISO (or other source, but use kickstart which doesn't use 'yum' in %post), make sure to include subscription-manager in the base installation (have it in %packages)
2. register the system using subscription-manager, enable rhel-7-server-rpms, rhel-7-server-optional-rpms - optionally, enable the EUS repos as well
3. do 'yum update' for a full system update, or just 'yum update nss'
4. when asked [y/n], answer 'n'
5. repeat step 3 again, answer 'y'
6. answer 'y' to gpgkey imports
7. observe the error from above

Alternative Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a system with 7.3 GA nss/nspr RPMs
2. register it via subscription-manager, like step 2 before
3. 'rm -rf /var/cache/yum'
4. 'yum makecache fast'
5. 'yum update nss'
6. see the error
7. (to reproduce again, downgrade to RPM versions from 1 and goto 3)

OLD (7.3 GA) RPM versions:
  nspr-4.11.0-1.el7_2
  nss-3.21.0-17.el7
  nss-sysinit-3.21.0-17.el7
  nss-tools-3.21.0-17.el7
  nss-util-3.21.0-2.2.el7_2

NEW (7.3 ZStream) RPM versions:
  nspr-4.13.1-1.0.el7_3
  nss-util-3.28.4-1.0.el7_3
  nss-3.28.4-1.2.el7_3
  nss-sysinit-3.28.4-1.2.el7_3
  nss-tools-3.28.4-1.2.el7_3

I would like to emphasize that to reproduce this, you need to follow the exact steps provided as this issue CANNOT be reproduced:
- if you use just 'yum clean all' instead of 'rm -rf' on the yum cache
- if yum downloads any repo metadata during the upgrade process,
  hence the 'yum makecache fast' or 'n' answer beforehand
- if you upgrade from locally available RPMs instead of RHSM
- if you do any yum operation prior to the update (ie. installing
  an unrelated RPM package)

----------------------------------------------------

Based on the above, I have a possible theory of what could be causing the issue.

Yum seems to download

  rhel-7-server-eus-optional-rpms/x86_64/productid  | 2.1 kB  00:00:00
  rhel-7-server-eus-rpms/x86_64/productid           | 2.1 kB  00:00:00
  rhel-7-server-optional-rpms/x86_64/productid      | 2.1 kB  00:00:00
  rhel-7-server-rpms/x86_64/productid               | 2.1 kB  00:00:00

right after Cleanup phases of installed RPMs, but *only* on the second yum invocation; that is one yum invocation *after* repo metadata are downloaded. If nss/nspr is updated during the same yum invocation, the error appears. Hence the magic around 'yum makecache', because if nss/nspr was updated during the same invocation as repo update, the productid bits wouldn't be downloaded (that would happen on next yum run) and nss/nspr would update successfully.

It is possible that the real cause is different, but I'm fairly certain this additional download plays some role in it.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-150.el7
subscription-manager-1.17.15-1.el7

Comment 2 Sofer Athlan-Guyot 2017-06-15 09:39:24 UTC
Hi Jiri,

do you have an update on this one, it's start to appear in a lot of RHOS upgrade, OSP8->9 and OSP9->10 are currently known to be affected.

Comment 3 Jiri Jaburek 2017-06-15 09:59:22 UTC
I do not have an update, I can still see the issue.

Comment 6 Sofer Athlan-Guyot 2017-06-22 13:02:09 UTC
Hi,

we have some more logs for it https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451275#c10, do you need some more info on this one ?

Thanks,

Comment 23 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2017-07-04 21:29:46 UTC
Created attachment 1294350 [details]
NSS workaround, changing nss-sysinit to avoid dependency on PR_GetEnvSecure

Comment 44 Sofer Athlan-Guyot 2017-07-17 11:35:41 UTC
Hi,

for reference, I'm adding the current upstream review https://review.openstack.org/#/c/483074/ to workaround the problem during RHOS update and cover most of the case during RHOS upgrade (RHOS update should bring RHEL upgrade so we are covered, but we adding a safety net for people "forgetting" to do a RHOS update before RHOS upgrade.)

Comment 55 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 15:07:29 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.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0845


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