Do you recall if that happened every time or just occasionally? The only way that can happen is if /sys/kernel/security/apparmor isn't mounted.

I just tested this on three 11.1 servers - two (always) show the error message on a "rcapparmor restart", the other never does (tested 5 times on each server to be sure it happens every time).

/sys/kernel/security is mounted on all servers - this probably means there _is_ another way that causes this error message ;-)

Thinking about it, the two servers that show the error message share nearly the same set of profiles. I just addded some debugging code and found out it only happens on my /usr/lib/postfix/local profile.

/usr/lib/postfix/local {
  #include <abstractions/base>
  [...]
profile "^/usr/lib/postfix/local " {

    /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman Px,

  }
}

Needless to say that this sub-profile looks a bit strange. I especially wonder about the space at the end of the name. (The question why this sub-profile exists at all is another issue, but I have no idea about this.)

After running "rcapparmor stop", the strange subprofile is still loaded:
# cat /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles
/usr/lib/postfix/local//^/usr/lib/postfix/local  (enforce)

The script echo's "/usr/lib/postfix/local//^/usr/lib/postfix/local" (without space!) to /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove

I just verified that this really causes the error message by removing the sub-profile and calling echo -n '/usr/lib/postfix/local//^/usr/lib/postfix/local ' > /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove
Now rcapparmor restart works without the error message.

-> the space must be lost somewhere - maybe there's variable quoting missing somewhere in the script.

some more debugging: the file $MODULE_PLIST contains the space. 
This means the space must be lost in this line:
   sort "$PNAMES_LIST" | comm -2 -3 "$MODULE_PLIST" - | while read profile ; do

comm worked fine on some test files, therefore I googled for "bash read space" and found http://dbaspot.com/forums/shell/372688-bash-read-string-preceding-trailing-space-oddity.html

The solution is to unset $IFS in /lib/apparmor/rc.apparmor.functions line 434:

-  sort "$PNAMES_LIST" | comm -2 -3 "$MODULE_PLIST" - | while read profile ; do
+  sort "$PNAMES_LIST" | comm -2 -3 "$MODULE_PLIST" - | while IFS= read profile  ; do   # ignore the line break in bugzilla

Please apply this fix to the rc.apparmor.functions script.


BTW: You'll get the "No such file or directory" message if you try to remove a profile that is not loaded (or doesn't exist). Try yourself:
echo '/does/not_exist' > /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove

Great! Thanks for the debugging effort. I'll work this into the package tomorrow morning.

I've committed this fix to the security:apparmor:factory and will backport the fix to the various products later tonight.

I've submitted fixes for SLE11 SP1 and openSUSE 11.2. openSUSE 11.1 is out of scope.

Anja, I have three fixes queued up for apparmor-parser. SR 34867

ok, we so kind and submit a patchinfo for 11.2; swampID: 32010

The SWAMPID for this issue is 32010.
Please submit the patch and patchinfo file using this ID.
(https://swamp.suse.de/webswamp/wf/32010)

Update released for: apparmor-parser, apparmor-parser-debuginfo, apparmor-parser-debugsource, apparmor-utils
Products:
openSUSE 11.2 (debug, i586, x86_64)

Unfortunately this fix was lost again in 11.3 :-(
A update just for this would be exaggeratedly, but you should include it if you ever release an update for apparmor-parser on 11.3.

More important: The 2.5.1 packages in security:apparmor also miss this fix - please apply the fix from comment #3 there!

I'm replaced line 434 /lib/apparmor/rc.apparmor.functions on
+  sort "$PNAMES_LIST" | comm -2 -3 "$MODULE_PLIST" - | while IFS= read profile
 ; do   # ignore the line break in bugzilla

but now i see new error:
> sudo /etc/init.d/boot.apparmor start
/lib/apparmor/rc.apparmor.functions: line 439: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
/lib/apparmor/rc.apparmor.functions: line 439: ` ; do   # ignore the line break in bugzilla'
/lib/apparmor/rc.apparmor.functions: line 345: configure_owlsm: command not found
Loading AppArmor profiles                                                                                                                  done
                                                                                                                                           done
What's wrong?

P.S.: openSUSE 11.3

> susepaste /lib/apparmor/rc.apparmor.functions
Pasted as:
   http://susepaste.org/57531528

(In reply to comment #11)
> I'm replaced line 434 /lib/apparmor/rc.apparmor.functions on
> +  sort "$PNAMES_LIST" | comm -2 -3 "$MODULE_PLIST" - | while IFS= read profile
>  ; do   # ignore the line break in bugzilla
> 
> but now i see new error:
...
> What's wrong?

The line has to be:
sort "$PNAMES_LIST" | comm -2 -3 "$MODULE_PLIST" - | while IFS= read profile ; do

It looks like you did something wrong, maybe you added a linebreak in front of the ";" or you accidently included the "+" when copying the line.

>    http://susepaste.org/57531528
gives me a "404 not found" :-(

(In reply to comment #12)

You are right. Thanks.

>>    http://susepaste.org/57531528
>gives me a "404 not found" :-(

Yeah, me too. :)

Ok, thanks for the update. I've fixed this in the apparmor package in security:apparmor:factory and in the apparmor-parser package for openSUSE 11.3. I'll submit it to maintenance after I check to see if there are any other pending apparmor-parser reports for 11.3.

openSUSE 11.3 SR 54281

looks good +1

The SWAMPID for this issue is 37584.
This issue was rated as low.
Please submit fixed packages until 2010-12-31.
Also create a patchinfo file using this link:
https://swamp.suse.de/webswamp/wf/37584

update started ... be so kind and add a patchinfo.

Looks like this was released w/o a patch info. Sorry for dragging my feet on that.

VERIFIED on 11.3
VERIFIED in apparmor-parser-2.5.1 from security:apparmor - which hopefully arrives in Factory soon (I've seen the mail about the pending SR on 
opensuse-factory)

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (510740) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/34867 11.2:Test / apparmor-parser
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/54281 11.3:Test / apparmor-parser
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/57759 11.2:Test / apparmor-parser