On 1/13/19 11:52 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 11:36:24AM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 1/13/19 9:22 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>> journalctl -f shows the following lines appearing in the log every five
>> seconds. Can anyone tell me whether this is important, and if so how to
>> fix it, and if not, how to stop this noise filling the journal up?
>
> That's the tpm2-abrmd package. I don't know what brings that in, I
don't
> have it.
The package description leaves me none the wiser:
# rpm -qi tpm2-abrmd
...
URL :
https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-abrmd
Bug URL :
https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/tpm2-abrmd
Summary : A system daemon implementing TPM2 Access Broker and Resource Manager
Description :
tpm2-abrmd is a system daemon implementing the TPM2 access broker (TAB) and
Resource Manager (RM) spec from the TCG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
The TPM is a device that can store bits of secure info. That package
provides a service for accessing the device. I have no idea what uses
it, there doesn't seem to be anything else depending on it on your
system. I would suggest just disabling it and file a bug on the package
since it seems to have a permissions issue.
# dnf remove tpm2-abrmd
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository
Size
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Removing:
tpm2-abrmd x86_64 2.0.3-2.fc29 @updates 498 k
Removing unused dependencies:
checkpolicy x86_64 2.8-2.fc29 @fedora 1.4 M
policycoreutils-python-utils
noarch 2.8-8.fc29 @fedora 116 k
python3-IPy noarch 0.81-23.fc29 @fedora 123 k
python3-audit x86_64 3.0-0.5.20181218gitbdb72c0.fc29 @updates 326 k
python3-libsemanage x86_64 2.8-4.fc29 @fedora 441 k
python3-policycoreutils noarch 2.8-8.fc29 @fedora 5.1 M
python3-setools x86_64 4.1.1-13.fc29 @fedora 1.8 M
tpm2-abrmd-selinux noarch 2.0.0-2.fc29 @fedora 11 k
Was this a clean F29 install or did you upgrade from a previous version?
It appears that tpm2-abrmd was part of the install since it brought in
a lot of dependencies. I have a lot of those other packages as well. I
would suggest if you want to remove the package that you add the
"--noautoremove" option to dnf so it doesn't remove those other ones.
> As root, can you do "cat /dev/tpm0"?
Yep, it gives zero-length output.
That's what I see as well.