Saturday, June 11, 2016

[389-devel] Re: Ticket 48798 - CI and lib389 tests fail

On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 19:39 +0200, Simon Pichugin wrote:
> Hi William,
> unfortunatly, soon I'll leave for a long PTO and now I need to finish a lot
> of different running stuff.
>
> Can you, please, finish with your broken patches?
>
> I am prepared a script for you. With the script you'll be able to set up
> an environment on any VM. Just reserve some new clean VM or create your own,
> run the script and then run the ticket48798.py. It should fail after this.
>
> I will available a few of following days, so I answer questions, if you'd have some.
>
>

It's okay. You have my word that this week, I will investigate this script, and see what happens.

Can I ask what distro / platform you are testing on so I can re-create?


> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:43:44AM +1000, William Brown wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 22:11 +0200, Simon Pichugin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi William,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:12:29AM +1000, William Brown wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 17:52 +0200, Simon Pichugin wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi William,
> > > > >
> > > > > I troubleshoot failures at the tickets.
> > > > > And both tickets/ticket48798_test.py and lib389/tests/nss_ssl_test.py
> > > > > fail because of the same problem. 
> > > > > As I understand this is because of class design issue (lib389/nss_ssl.py).
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you please take a look? May be you've already faced that issue and
> > > > > can help me with the problem, so it would resolve faster. :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Please, find the log output in the attachment.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Simon
> > > > I haven't seen this issue before. "works for me" right, so it's not a bug? ;) 
> > > Did you test it on clean environment?
> > Always yes.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Joking aside, looking at that trace, the assert failing is that the CA failed to validate post create. 
> > > >
> > > >         # Check if ca exists. Should be false.
> > > >         assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl._rsa_ca_exists() is False)
> > > >         # Create it. Should work.
> > > >         assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl.create_rsa_ca() is True)
> > > >         # Check if ca exists. Should be true
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >        assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl._rsa_ca_exists() is True)
> > > > E       assert <bound method NssSsl._rsa_ca_exists of <lib389.nss_ssl.NssSsl object at 0x7f13b4de3ed0>>() is True
> > > > E        +  where <bound method NssSsl._rsa_ca_exists of <lib389.nss_ssl.NssSsl object at 0x7f13b4de3ed0>> =
> > > > <lib389.nss_ssl.NssSsl object at 0x7f13b4de3ed0>._rsa_ca_exists
> > > > E        +    where <lib389.nss_ssl.NssSsl object at 0x7f13b4de3ed0> = <lib389.DirSrv instance at
> > > > 0x7f13b553dbd8>.nss_ssl
> > > > E        +      where <lib389.DirSrv instance at 0x7f13b553dbd8> = <lib389.tests.nss_ssl_test.TopologyStandalone object
> > > > at
> > > > 0x7f13b4df8210>.standalone
> > > >
> > > > lib389/tests/nss_ssl_test.py:71: AssertionError
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I would think the error is occuring in:
> > > >
> > > >         assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl.create_rsa_ca() is True)
> > > >
> > > > This may erroneously be returning True.
> > > >
> > > > It would be worth preventing the instance from being removed, and checking the output of the ssl directory.
> > > >
> > > > Have a look at say (depending on your install prefix ...):
> > > >
> > > > cd [/opt/dirsrv]/etc/dirsrv/slapd-standalone
> > > > certutil -L -d .
> > > >
> > > > You could also dump the result of the check call, or even the command line string it uses and run it by hand. Look at
> > > > line
> > > > 147 of nss_ssl.py. Maybe we could add some better logging in / around these parts for future if we have this error
> > > > again?
> > > >
> > > > The reason I think the error is in create_rsa_ca, is because in _rsa_ca_exists(), there is basically no error checking.
> > > > It's
> > > > designed to "fail fast", in the cast there is no CA or DB. Because it's returning a "False", which triggers the assert,
> > > > it
> > > > means the CA check is probably working, and telling the truth.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does that help? If you need anything else, let me know,
> > > So I am in the process of investigation, but today I am already drained out,
> > > so I will share what I've found and go to sleep.
> > >
> > > Certutil shows that CA cert was successfully added.
> > Can you paste me the output?
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > If I comment only "#assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl._rsa_ca_exists() is False)",
> > > then "assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl._rsa_ca_exists() is True)" is passed.
> > The whole test passes? Hmmm, maybe there is a fault in the CA detection code like you suspected .... 
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > If I additionally comment "#assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl._rsa_key_and_cert_exists() is False)",
> > > then "assert(topology.standalone.nss_ssl._rsa_ca_exists() is True)" is failed again.
> > I don't quite understand this sorry, I'll need to look :) 
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > And it is pretty weird. I think all of this happens because of
> > > not proper created NssSsl class (something was messed out with "bound",
> > > "nonbound" and "static" methods AND/OR something wrong with nss_init
> > > opened every function and not closed). But I am still not sure where is the
> > > problem can be, it is only suggestions. :)
> > The python NSS types are pretty gnarly. It's basically a thin wrapper to the C api. So it gets messy *fast*. 
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Additionaly, I have the next error:
> > >
> > > self = <lib389.config.Config object at 0x7f418cdf50d0>, secport = 636, secargs = {'nsSSL3Ciphers': '+all'}
> > >
> > >     def enable_ssl(self, secport=636, secargs=None):
> > >         """Configure SSL support into cn=encryption,cn=config.
> > >
> > >                 secargs is a dict like {
> > >                     'nsSSLPersonalitySSL': 'Server-Cert'
> > >                 }
> > >             """
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >       if self.deprecation_strict:
> > > E       AttributeError: 'Config' object has no attribute 'deprecation_strict'
> > Ahhhhhh that's my mistake there on that one as a result of 48820. Just remove the "if self.deprecation_strict:" and related
> > lines.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > But I didn't look into this still. If you want I'll do it tomorrow.
> > >
> > We really need a shared VM we can work on some of these issues together I think sometimes :) I might setup something for
> > this
> > purpose. 
> >
> >

--
Sincerely,

William Brown
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Brisbane

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