[CentOS] CentOS Stream 8 sssd.service failing part of sssd-common-2.8.1-1.el8.x86_64 baseos package

Mon Jan 9 21:43:36 UTC 2023
Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl>


On 1/9/23 17:45, Simon Matter wrote:
>> On 1/3/23 13:41, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>> On 1/3/23 05:17, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>>> On 12/30/22 04:06, Jelle de Jong wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/27/22 22:55, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2022-12-25 07:44, Jelle de Jong wrote:
>>>>>>>> A recent update of the sssd-common-2.8.1-1.el8.x86_64 package is
>>>>>>>> causing sssd.service systemctl failures all over my CentosOS
>>>>>>>> machines.
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> [sssd] [confdb_expand_app_domains] (0x0010): No domains configured,
>>>>>>>> fatal error!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Were you previously using sssd?  Or is the problem merely that it is
>>>>>>> now reporting an error starting a service that you don't use?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are there any files in /etc/sssd/conf.d, or does /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
>>>>>>> exist?  If so, what are the contents of those files?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What are the contents of /usr/lib/systemd/system/sssd.service?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you run "journalctl -u sssd.service", are there any log entries
>>>>>>> older than the package update?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got a monitoring system for failing services and I sudenly started
>>>>>> getting dozens of notifications for all my CentOS systems that sssd
>>>>>> was failing. This is after the sssd package updates, causing this
>>>>>> regression. SSSD services where not really in use but some of the
>>>>>> common libraries are used.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # systemctl status sssd
>>>>>> ● sssd.service - System Security Services Daemon
>>>>>>       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sssd.service; enabled;
>>>>>> vendor preset: enabled)
>>>>>>       Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2022-12-24 06:14:10
>>>>>> UTC; 6 days ago
>>>>>> Condition: start condition failed at Fri 2022-12-30 11:02:01 UTC; 4s
>>>>>> ago
>>>>>>               ├─ ConditionPathExists=|/etc/sssd/sssd.conf was not met
>>>>>>               └─ ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty=|/etc/sssd/conf.d was not
>>>>>> met
>>>>>>     Main PID: 3953157 (code=exited, status=4)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output
>>>>>> is incomplete or unavailable.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> # ls -halZ /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
>>>>>> ls: cannot access '/etc/sssd/sssd.conf': No such file or directory
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like you need to figure out what happened to your
>>>>> /etc/sssd/sssd.conf file.  FWIW - I've updated my one CS8 machine to
>>>>> 2.8.1-1 and it seems to be fine.
>>>>
>>>> I did not do anything specific to the configuration file. I tried to
>>>> reinstall the new sssd-common pacakge, but it will not install the
>>>> /etc/sssd/sssd.conf file. I can not remove the package because it will
>>>> remove a lot of packages that I do need. I still think something is
>>>> wrong with the new sssd packages..
>>>>
>>>> [root at nginx01 ~]# rpm -qplc sssd-common-2.8.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
>>>> /etc/logrotate.d/sssd
>>>> /etc/pam.d/sssd-shadowutils
>>>> /etc/rwtab.d/sssd
>>>> /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
>>>
>>> Most likely the file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf is a ghost file and therefore
>>> it's not installed but only recognized as being part of the package.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>
>> I do not get this. There has nog been an /etc/sssd/sssd.conf on my
>> system before as it only installed sssd-common due to dependencies for
>> other libaries. I do not use the sssd service. The package gets an
>> update and now my systemd status is failing on a lot of systems and I am
>> being tolled I should get /etc/sssd/sssd.conf sorted?
>>
>> Can you fix the sssd package by either not enabling the sssd systemd
>> service or some other solution that does not make systemd status fail?
>>
>> This is a regression and it is going to cause me a lot of time now to
>> write ansible code for the disabling of the sssd service on all systems
>> that have it installed due to dependencies but do not use it.
>>
>> sssd.services failing regressions and dfn-automatic.serivces failing
>> regressions due to freeipa/sssd/samba conflicts for months now.
> 
> Do you have a file /etc/sssd/sssd.conf? IIRC you said you don't have such
> a file, which is fine.

no file is there.

> Do you have any file in /etc/sssd/conf.d/? This directory should be empty
> but it's possible that another package puts something there.

no files are there.

Kind regards,

Jelle de Jong