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Bug 2093291

Summary:	Subscription manager fails when run with rootless Buildah
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Rehana <redakkan>
Component:	subscription-manager	Assignee:	Jiri Hnidek <jhnidek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team <rhsm-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	9.0	CC:	candlepin-bugs, dwalsh, jhnidek, jsefler, jstavel, redakkan, rhsm-qe, zpetrace
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	9.3	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	subscription-manager-1.29.34-1.el9	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	2091269	Environment:
Last Closed:	2023-11-07 08:51:53 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	2091269
Bug Blocks:

Description Rehana 2022-06-03 12:59:32 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2091269 +++

Users doing:

$ buildah unshare
# ctr=$(buildah from scratch)
# mnt=$(buildah mount $ctr)
# dnf -y install --installroot=$mnt --releasever=8 httpd

Blows up, because the RedHat Subcription manager plugin attempts to
write to paths in /run and /var/lib that are not writable within the
user namespace.

I think we have to work with the subscription manager people to follow
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and understand that they are running in a rootless user
namespace environment, to make this work.

This works fine with Fedora and Centos, it only seems to blow up in
RHEL, because of subscription manager.

Comment 3 Jan Stavel 2023-04-11 11:34:41 UTC

[test@sweetpig-10 ~]$ buildah unshare
[root@sweetpig-10 ~]# ctr=$(buildah from scratch)
[root@sweetpig-10 ~]# mnt=$(buildah mount $ctr)
[root@sweetpig-10 ~]# dnf -y install --installroot=$mnt --releasever=8 httpd
2023-04-11 07:21:44,414 [ERROR] dnf:21088:MainThread @logutil.py:241 - [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log' - Further logging output will be written to stderr
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity
2023-04-11 07:21:44,415 [INFO] dnf:21088:MainThread @lock.py:155 - Unable to create lock/write to directory /run/rhsm: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/run/rhsm/tmp4ksomy3i'
2023-04-11 07:21:44,415 [INFO] dnf:21088:MainThread @lock.py:308 - Trying to use user lock directory: /run/user/1000/rhsm/cert.pid (influenced by $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR)

This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

  Verifying        : systemd-pam-252-13.el9_2.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                    85/91 
  Verifying        : systemd-rpm-macros-252-13.el9_2.noarch                                                                                                                                                                             86/91 
  Verifying        : tzdata-2022g-2.el9.noarch                                                                                                                                                                                          87/91 
  Verifying        : util-linux-2.37.4-10.el9.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                    88/91 
  Verifying        : util-linux-core-2.37.4-10.el9.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                               89/91 
  Verifying        : xz-libs-5.2.5-8.el9_0.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                       90/91 
  Verifying        : zlib-1.2.11-39.el9.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                          91/91 
2023-04-11 07:22:15,275 [WARNING] dnf:21088:MainThread @logutil.py:175 - logging already initialized
2023-04-11 07:22:15,277 [ERROR] dnf:21088:MainThread @product-id.py:192 - Unable to read cache: /var/lib/rhsm/cache/productid_repo_mapping.json
2023-04-11 07:22:15,277 [ERROR] dnf:21088:MainThread @product-id.py:193 - [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/rhsm/cache/productid_repo_mapping.json'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/product-id.py", line 185, in __read_cache_file
    with open(file_name) as file:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/rhsm/cache/productid_repo_mapping.json'
2023-04-11 07:22:15,292 [ERROR] dnf:21088:MainThread @product-id.py:179 - Unable to write cache: /var/lib/rhsm/cache/productid_repo_mapping.json
2023-04-11 07:22:15,292 [ERROR] dnf:21088:MainThread @product-id.py:180 - [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/rhsm/cache'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/product-id.py", line 174, in __write_cache_file
    os.makedirs(dir_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/os.py", line 225, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/rhsm/cache'
2023-04-11 07:22:15,322 [INFO] dnf:21088:MainThread @productid.py:556 - Updating product db with 486 -> beaker-AppStream
2023-04-11 07:22:15,322 [INFO] dnf:21088:MainThread @productid.py:556 - Updating product db with 486 -> beaker-BaseOS
Installed products updated.

Installed:
  acl-2.3.1-3.el9.x86_64                                 alternatives-1.20-2.el9.x86_64               apr-1.7.0-11.el9.x86_64                   apr-util-1.6.1-20.el9.x86_64                 apr-util-bdb-1.6.1-20.el9.x86_64               
  apr-util-openssl-1.6.1-20.el9.x86_64                   audit-libs-3.0.7-103.el9.x86_64              basesystem-11-13.el9.noarch               bash-5.1.8-6.el9_1.x86_64                    bzip2-libs-1.0.8-8.el9.x86_64                





[root@sweetpig-10 ~]# rpm -qa | grep subscription
subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates-20220623-1.el9.noarch
python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-1.29.33+34.gcbc3efc7e-1.git.0.b1abf6c.x86_64
libdnf-plugin-subscription-manager-1.29.33+34.gcbc3efc7e-1.git.0.b1abf6c.x86_64
subscription-manager-1.29.33+34.gcbc3efc7e-1.git.0.b1abf6c.x86_64
subscription-manager-cockpit-6^25.g7c697ca-1.el9.noarch

Comment 6 Zdenek Petracek 2023-04-27 17:46:42 UTC

Final verification done on SUBMAN version:
[root@kvm-01-guest13 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: This system is currently not registered.
subscription management server: 4.2.15-1
subscription management rules: 5.43
subscription-manager: 1.29.34-1.el9

Verification process:
[root@kvm-01-guest13 ~]# buildah unshare
[root@kvm-01-guest13 ~]# ctr=$(buildah from scratch)
[root@kvm-01-guest13 ~]# mnt=$(buildah mount $ctr)

[root@kvm-01-guest13 ~]# dnf -y install --installroot=$mnt --releasever=8 httpd
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity

This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

beaker-AppStream                                          62 MB/s | 6.3 MB     00:00    
beaker-AppStream-debuginfo                                66 MB/s | 5.3 MB     00:00    
beaker-BaseOS                                             42 MB/s | 1.7 MB     00:00    
beaker-BaseOS-debuginfo                                   40 MB/s | 1.5 MB     00:00    
beaker-CRB                                                55 MB/s | 2.0 MB     00:00    
beaker-CRB-debuginfo                                      23 MB/s | 354 kB     00:00    
beaker-HighAvailability                                   16 MB/s | 235 kB     00:00    
beaker-HighAvailability-debuginfo                        2.2 MB/s |  24 kB     00:00    
...
  p11-kit-trust-0.24.1-2.el9.x86_64             pam-1.5.1-14.el9.x86_64                           
  pcre-8.44-3.el9.3.x86_64                      pcre2-10.40-2.el9.x86_64                          
  pcre2-syntax-10.40-2.el9.noarch               readline-8.1-4.el9.x86_64                         
  redhat-logos-httpd-90.4-1.el9.noarch          redhat-release-9.3-0.0.el9.x86_64                 
  redhat-release-eula-9.3-0.0.el9.x86_64        sed-4.8-9.el9.x86_64                              
  setup-2.13.7-9.el9.noarch                     shadow-utils-2:4.9-6.el9.x86_64                   
  systemd-252-13.el9_2.x86_64                   systemd-libs-252-13.el9_2.x86_64                  
  systemd-pam-252-13.el9_2.x86_64               systemd-rpm-macros-252-13.el9_2.noarch            
  tzdata-2023c-1.el9.noarch                     util-linux-2.37.4-10.el9.x86_64                   
  util-linux-core-2.37.4-10.el9.x86_64          xz-libs-5.2.5-8.el9_0.x86_64                      
  zlib-1.2.11-39.el9.x86_64                    

Complete!

^^ Final verification PASSED

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:51:53 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 (subscription-manager bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2023:6606