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Bug 904986 - pkcsslotd cannot be started if opencryptoki installed
Summary: pkcsslotd cannot be started if opencryptoki installed
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: opencryptoki
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: Petr Lautrbach
QA Contact: Jiri Jaburek
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-28 10:45 UTC by Miroslav Vadkerti
Modified: 2019-03-06 00:54 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: opencryptoki-2.4.2-3.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 11:51:56 UTC
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Description Miroslav Vadkerti 2013-01-28 10:45:29 UTC 
Description of problem:
By default there is no token installed with opencryptoki in RHEL7 (opencryptoki-{swtok,tpmtok}. This confuses users as the pkcsslotd service is unable to start without a token and doesn't give a good hint what is the problem:
# service pkcsslotd status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  pkcsslotd.service
pkcsslotd.service - Daemon which manages cryptographic hardware tokens for the openCryptoki package
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pkcsslotd.service; disabled)
          Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2013-01-28 10:52:57 CET; 31min ago
         Process: 7113 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/pkcsslotd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
         Process: 7108 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/pkcs11_startup (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Daemon which manages cryptographic hardware tokens for the openCryptoki package...
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com pkcsslotd[7113]: Cannot open file /var/lib/opencryptoki/pk_config_data
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com pkcsslotd[7113]: Please run /usr/sbin/pkcs11_startup
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com pkcsslotd[7113]: ERROR pkcsslotd-log.o[7113.-1968515264]: Failed to read slot database.
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com pkcsslotd[7113]: Failed to read slot database.
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com systemd[1]: pkcsslotd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon which manages cryptographic hardware tokens for the openCryptoki package.
Jan 28 10:52:57 dhcp-25-79.brq.redhat.com systemd[1]: Unit pkcsslotd.service entered failed state

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
opencryptoki-2.4.2-2.el7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install opencryptoki
2. service pkcsslotd start
3. service pkcsslotd status
  
Actual results:
Service fails to start

Expected results:
Service starts

Additional info:
AFAIK in RHEL6 the soft token is not in separate subpackage so users don't hit this behavior.
Comment 2 Dan Horák 2013-04-04 10:02:36 UTC 
Using virtual Provides/Requires: opencryptoki(token) we get at least one token installed.
Comment 4 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:51:56 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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