intermittent failure of oval check, how to debug?

Brian Millett bmillett at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 16:29:15 UTC 2013


Ok, how do I go about debugging this:

[root at deckard scap]# ./testcheck.py dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bits.xml 
Evaluating with OVAL tempfile : /tmp/dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bitshof67c.xml
OpenSCAP Error: Unable to receive a message from probe [oval_probe_ext.c:583]
[root at deckard scap]# ./testcheck.py dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bits.xml 
Evaluating with OVAL tempfile : /tmp/dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bitsLT_H5A.xml
OpenSCAP Error: Unable to receive a message from probe [oval_probe_ext.c:583]
[root at deckard scap]# ./testcheck.py dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bits.xml 
Evaluating with OVAL tempfile : /tmp/dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bits6eM3gu.xml
OpenSCAP Error: Unable to receive a message from probe [oval_probe_ext.c:583]
[root at deckard scap]# ./testcheck.py dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bits.xml 
Evaluating with OVAL tempfile : /tmp/dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bitsIWHsj4.xml
Definition oval:scap-security-guide.testing:def:100: false


The dir_perms_world_writable_sticky_bits test on ONE rhel6 machine is failing, but
sometimes it does not.

When I run an evaluation with the stig-rhel policy, I get

OpenSCAP Error: Unable to receive a message from probe [oval_probe_ext.c:584]
No definition with ID: oval:ssg:def:509 in result model. [oval_agent.c:182]

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Brian Millett
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