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

Tue Jan 10 07:32:41 UTC 2023
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

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>
> 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.

Maybe you can check for a difference in sssd.service from the older
package and the current one. It seems that there was a change which
results in the behavior you see.

Regards,
Simon