[CentOS] 6.3: service not starting?

Wed Jul 18 16:43:06 UTC 2012
Trevor Cooper <tcooper at ucsd.edu>


On 07/17/2012 11:42 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Patrick Lists wrote:
>> On 17-07-12 19:38, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> Before I roll it out to users for their workstations, I updated my own
>>> system to 6.3, just did an update a few minutes ago, then rebooted. Came
>>> up... but when I went to use my PIV card for credentials to certain
>>> other machines, it didn't read the card. I found that pcscd was not
> running -
>>> when I did a service restart, it said "failed" on shutdown, then ok on
>>> startup. chkconfig --list tells me it's supposed to be on.
>>>
>>> Now, I'm pretty sure I saw this behavior with motion on a server I did a
>>> week or so ago, also: same thing, chkconfig says it should be on, but it
>>> was never turned up. This is a reboot after update, not a new install,
>>> and selinux is permissive in both cases.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this, with optional services?
>> There was also an issue with PostgreSQL not starting after installing
>> the latest updates. The culprit seems to be the sudo update:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818585
>>
>> So try this first:
>>
>> # restorecon /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>
>> Then try to start the pcscd service again to see if that fixes it.
> I can do that, but see no reason to. As I stated above, selinux is in
> permissive mode, and I did a yum update, which updated
> Jul 16 14:36:59 Updated: dracut-004-284.el6_3.noarch
> Jul 16 14:37:00 Updated: dracut-kernel-004-284.el6_3.noarch
> Jul 17 13:27:40 Updated: psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_3.3.x86_64
> Jul 17 13:27:41 Updated: sudo-1.7.4p5-12.el6_3.x86_64
>
> which includes the sudo update, though I note from rpm -qi that it was
> built at 12:31 yesterday. Johnny, is this the one that was just announced
> in the announcement email of an hour or so ago?
Permissive mode or not this update also broke NFS automount of home directories
on our 5.8 systems. The restorecon fix works for this purpose for us.

Before the update...

# egrep -v "^#" /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=permissive
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
SETLOCALDEFS=0

# rpm -qa sudo
sudo-1.7.2p1-13.el5

# ls -Z /etc/nsswitch.conf
-rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:etc_t          /etc/nsswitch.conf

After the update...
# rpm -qa sudo
sudo-1.7.2p1-14.el5_8

# ls -Z /etc/nsswitch.conf
-rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:rpm_script_tmp_t /etc/nsswitch.conf

>From /var/log/messages when attempting to access automounted home directory...
Jul 18 07:08:40 ... automount[2580]: nsswitch_parse:173: couldn't open
/etc/nsswitch.conf
Jul 18 07:08:40 ... automount[2580]: lookup_nss_mount: can't to read name
service switch config.

After the fix...
# restorecon /etc/nsswitch.conf && service autofs restart
Stopping automount:                                        [  OK  ]
Starting automount:                                        [  OK  ]

# ls -Z /etc/nsswitch.conf
-rw-r--r--  root root system_u:object_r:etc_t          /etc/nsswitch.conf


Trevor