Bug 158011 - audit log has "type=(null) msg=(null)"
Summary: audit log has "type=(null) msg=(null)"
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: audit
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steve Grubb
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: 158130 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-05-17 19:29 UTC by Thomas J. Baker
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-05-18 18:57:34 UTC
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Description Thomas J. Baker 2005-05-17 19:29:28 UTC
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Description of problem:
Not sure what this should be filed against but...

Clean install of fc4t3 + rawhide updates as of 5/16/2005 on an 64 bit smp xeon system. I get messages in my /var/log/audit/audit.log like this:

type=(null) msg=(null)
type=(null) msg=(null)
type=(null) msg=(null)
type=(null) msg=(null)
type=(null) msg=(null)
type=(null) msg=(null)
type=(null) msg=(null)

I've tried relabling but that hasn't fixed it. I know I can trigger the above messages just by trying to start dovecot from the /etc/init.d/dovecot script. (Strangely, if I just run 'dovecot' as root, it starts.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.1305_FC4, selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.14-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install dovecot
2. try to start it
3. 
  

Actual Results:  Null error messages in /var/log/audit/audit.log

Expected Results:  meaningful audit messages?

Additional info:

Comment 1 Thomas J. Baker 2005-05-17 19:56:59 UTC
May 17th updates don't fix it either. (I thought maybe the libsepol updates
might have helped.)

Comment 2 Steve Grubb 2005-05-18 11:55:44 UTC
This is a known issue. The kernel has message types that the audit system didn't
understand. audit 0.8.1 was put into the build system yesterday to fix this.
Please upgrade to it when its available. If you want to build the package
yourself, you can find it at people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit. Hope this helps.

Comment 3 Thomas J. Baker 2005-05-18 18:56:34 UTC
It missed today's rawhide so I rebuilt it myself and it works. Thanks.

Comment 4 Steve Grubb 2005-05-18 21:24:18 UTC
*** Bug 158130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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