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

Mon Jan 9 16:45:19 UTC 2023
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> 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.

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.

Regards,
Simon