Fedora 17, Passenger, Postgresl and Apache

[Pete Stieber]

On 08/06/2012 09:30 PM, PS = Pete Stieber wrote:
PS>> Have you tried
PS>>
PS>> setenforce 0
PS>>
PS>> to see if the problem is SELinux relates?

On 8/6/2012 11:47 PM, JZ = Joe Zeff wrote:
JZ> I take it, then, that you haven't been
JZ> following the thread about Cargo Cult
JZ> Sysadminning.

No I haven't.

JZ> Unless the OP's been receiving alerts,
JZ> there's no particular reason to think
JZ> that SELinux is an issue here, so why
JZ> disable it?

Just to see if it is the cause of the problem.  Once this is determined...

setenforce 1

I'm attempting to use redmine on a Fedora 17 box and selinux is giving 
me grief.  There are no AVC messages in the audit log.  When I restart 
the service

systemctl restart httpd.service

I see the following in the apache error log...

[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd 
running as context system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
/usr/sbin/suexec)
[ pid=9129 thr=140103797811008 file=ext/common/AgentBase.cpp:419 
time=2012-08-07 18:40:29.300 ]: *** ERROR: Unexpected end-of-file 
encountered
      in 'void Passenger::VariantMap::readFrom(int)' (VariantMap.h:140)
      in 'Passenger::VariantMap Passenger::initializeAgent(int, char**, 
const char*)' (AgentBase.cpp:355)

[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [error] *** Passenger could not be 
initialized because of this error: Unable to start the Phusion Passenger 
watchdog: it seems to have crashed during startup for an unknown reason, 
with exit code 1
[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] SSL FIPS mode disabled
[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest 
authentication ...
[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[ pid=9132 thr=140187981117248 file=ext/common/AgentBase.cpp:419 
time=2012-08-07 18:40:29.404 ]: *** ERROR: Unexpected end-of-file 
encountered
      in 'void Passenger::VariantMap::readFrom(int)' (VariantMap.h:140)
      in 'Passenger::VariantMap Passenger::initializeAgent(int, char**, 
const char*)' (AgentBase.cpp:355)

[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [error] *** Passenger could not be 
initialized because of this error: Unable to start the Phusion Passenger 
watchdog: it seems to have crashed during startup for an unknown reason, 
with exit code 1
[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] SSL FIPS mode disabled
[Tue Aug 07 18:40:29 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.4.5 
Phusion_Passenger/3.0.13 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.0j-fips configured 
-- resuming normal operations

If I temporarily disable selinux, this doesn't occur.

I grepped for passenger in the recent threads and noticed the OP's 
message and suggested trying this just to see if selinux was the issue. 
  He has stated it isn't.  I was just trying to help.

Daniel Walsh and Miroslav Grepl helped me get my redmine setup running 
with selinux, but one of the recent selinux updates caused a repeated 
break break.

Sorry I wasn't helping,
Pete