[SSSD] Ubuntu sssd updates

Rowland Penny repenny241155 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 13:42:46 UTC 2013


On 28/08/13 14:30, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 28.08.2013 12:08, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:49:57AM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> On 28/08/13 09:17, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:27:55PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I run sssd on Linux Mint 15, I received and installed a raft of
>>>>> sssd updates today. I immediately lost the ability to connect to the
>>>>> domain.
>>>>> The problem was that whilst there was a sssd.pid in /var/run/ ps ax
>>>>> didn't show any sssd programs and if you tried to restart sssd, it
>>>>> just hung. The machine would not turn off, you had to hold the power
>>>>> button to stop it.
>>>>> In the end I downloaded 1.10.1 and compiled & installed it over the
>>>>> installed sssd, everything now works again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rowland
>>>> Sounds like something to bring up in your distribution bug tracker?
>>>>
>>>> What version did you upgrade to (and from) that was broken? Maybe you hit
>>>> some bug that was fixed later.
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>>> Ok, I am not sure what exact ubuntu version of sssd I had, it was
>>> 1.9.4-something, Ubuntu issued a raft of sssd updates
>>>
>>> libipa-hbac-dev     libipa-hbac0     libnss-sss     libpam-sss
>>> libsss-idmap0     libsss-sudo     python-libipa-hbac     python-sss
>>> sssd-tools
>>>
>>> I ended up with version 1.9.4-0ubuntu4.2
>>>
>>> Before the updates, sssd worked perfectly, after the update, sssd
>>> did not work at all, my pc hung and when I did get back in as a
>>> local user, the domain was not visible. Downloading 1.10.1,
>>> compiling and installing over the installed sssd packages cured the
>>> problem, so the cause must have been the update.
>>>
>>> I think the relevant ubuntu bug is 903752, this refers to
>>> 'libpwquality' for which a certain 'Timo Aaltonen' provided an
>>> update for on the 9/7/2013 and 'Adam Conrad' finally released the
>>> fix on 24/8/13, this fix hit my pc on 27/8/13 and made my pc
>>> unusable.
>>>
>>> I do not have an account at ubuntu to report the bug, so I thought
>>> that I would cut out the monkeys and come direct to the organ
>>> grinder ;-) , could you please get 'Timo Aaltonen' to talk to 'Adam
>>> Conrad' and sort out the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Rowland
>> I can certainly CC Timo and ask him if this is something that rings a
>> bell :-)
> First time I hear about this. All the update did was fix a path on the
> apparmor profile, assuming you were running 1.9.4-0ubuntu4.1. And I know
> nothing about Mint.
>
> 903752 has nothing to do with this, it's just a meta-bug about moving
> sssd in the 'main' repository, making it officially supported and
> available to the installer and such in the future.
>
>
Hi, all I can say is that about 17:45 GMT yesterday, I allowed a list of 
sssd updates to go ahead, I use Linux Mint 15 but as this is based on 
Ubuntu 13.04 the updates came from Ubuntu. I left it to update and when 
I came back, the screensaver had kicked in and could not get back in. I 
had to power off the machine by pressing and holding the power button. 
When I did get the machine to restart, all the domain users had 
seemingly gone. I finally traced the fault to the fact that sssd had 
crashed, hung, call it what you will, it had a pid but did not shown in 
'ps ax'. I tried to purge sssd but could not, the terminal just hung and 
in the end I had to power off the computer again. I had to download and 
install 1.10.1 over the already installed sssd packages, force-ably 
power off the machine again and restart. Everything now worked just like 
before the update, ergo it must have been the update that was at fault.

Rowland




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