Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux

Woti

Hello again
I have now created a systemd service for podman easyepg by following this tutorial:
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-shareable-systemd-services
and it looks like it works.
Is there any way I can test if updating of epg channel informasjon is working as expected by triggering manuelly? The cronjob executes 2 a.m.

After reboot the service is loaded but inactive. I have to activate manually? How can I figure out what's going wrong during boot?

podman generate systemd --name easyepg.cron 

# container-easyepg.cron.service
# autogenerated by Podman 1.8.0
# Mon Mar 16 22:40:13 CET 2020

[Unit]
Description=Podman container-easyepg.cron.service
Documentation=man:podman-generate-systemd(1)

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start easyepg.cron
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 10 easyepg.cron
PIDFile=/run/user/1000/containers/overlay-containers/a5482f12e8b718d6d080eb0a10283b456e58f57c2f1bd22c64e49f9e91073da8/userdata/conmon.pid
KillMode=none
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl --user status container-easyepg.service

● container-easyepg.service - Podman container-easyepg.cron.service
   Loaded: loaded (/home/twolf/.config/systemd/user/container-easyepg.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-03-17 21:30:35 CET; 1s ago
     Docs: man:podman-generate-systemd(1)
  Process: 1405 ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start easyepg.cron (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1429 (conmon)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 2333)
   Memory: 23.0M
      CPU: 1.092s
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/container-easyepg.service
           ├─1420 /usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs -o lowerdir=/home/twolf/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/l/2YMPIRCLJIU>           ├─1423 /usr/bin/slirp4netns --disable-host-loopback --mtu 65520 -c -e 3 -r 4 --netns-type=path /run/user/100>           └─1429 /usr/bin/conmon --api-version 1 -s -c a5482f12e8b718d6d080eb0a10283b456e58f57c2f1bd22c64e49f9e91073da>
Mär 17 21:30:33 localhost.localdomain systemd[981]: Starting Podman container-easyepg.cron.service...
Mär 17 21:30:35 localhost.localdomain podman[1405]: 2020-03-17 21:30:35.237845063 +0100 CET m=+1.249145219 container in>Mär 17 21:30:35 localhost.localdomain podman[1405]: 2020-03-17 21:30:35.287066083 +0100 CET m=+1.298366135 container st>Mär 17 21:30:35 localhost.localdomain podman[1405]: easyepg.cron
Mär 17 21:30:35 localhost.localdomain systemd[981]: Started Podman container-easyepg.cron.service.

podman ps

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                     COMMAND  CREATED     STATUS             PORTS  NAMES
a5482f12e8b7  docker.io/qoopido/easyepg.minimal:latest           6 days ago  Up 12 minutes ago         easyepg.cron

stacksofplates

If it's really using cron, I don't know of a way to make it test without letting that happen.

As for the other issue, I've had that as well and I don't know a way around it. I'm still trying to figure that out. I run plex in a container and every time the host reboots I have to restart it.

Woti

As for now the server is rebooting once or twice in a month due updates. There's no big problem to start the service manually. Maybe one day we figure out why it isn't starting automatically.

Anyway. Thanx for your effort to get rid of the SElinux problem.

stacksofplates

So I got a container to start with the system. I don't like what podman generate systemd gives you because it defeats the purpose of a container. Here's what I have:

[Unit]
Description=Plex
After=network.target

[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=5m
Restart=always
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f plex
ExecStart=podman run --name plex -v /mnt/media/movies:/movies -v /mnt/media/tv:/tv -v /mnt/media/music:/music -v /home/jhooks/plex/config:/config -p 32400:32400 -p 32400:32400/udp -p 32469:32469 -p 32469:32469/udp -p 5353:5353/udp -p 1900:1900/udp linuxserver/plex
ExecStop=-/usr/bin/podman kill plex
Type=simple
User=jhooks
RestartSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I was running ExecStart=podman run -d --rm --name plex blah blah but even when I used forking it was failing to track the process.

This will kill the container and spin up a new one for me each time which is what I wanted. That way I'm not dependent on container IDs existing.

Woti

Heiho
I haven't seen your message yet. Now 1 month has passed
Your script starts Podman automatically at boot?

Are you using Plex? I am using Kodi

stacksofplates

@Woti said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:

Heiho
I haven't seen your message yet. Now 1 month has passed
Your script starts Podman automatically at boot?

Are you using Plex? I am using Kodi

Yeah I got it to work! Oh nice

Woti

Sounds good I'll try your solution and report.

Woti

Hei, I wanted to try your solution. Først, I wanted to run meg container setup but I get this error:

systemctl --user status container-easyepg.service
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

I haven't changed anything since the last time and the container file exists...
I can start it in Cockpit but not in the console. Strange...

I figured out: I need to issue the above command as user not as root.
Is it wrong to issuer this command as user? I setted up podman to use easyepg as user not as root.
Maybe that's why the container not starts during boot?

Which podman owner are you using @stacksofplates : user or root?

stacksofplates

@Woti said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:

Hei, I wanted to try your solution. Først, I wanted to run meg container setup but I get this error:
systemctl --user status container-easyepg.service
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
I haven't changed anything since the last time and the container file exists...
I can start it in Cockpit but not in the console. Strange...

I figured out: I need to issue the above command as user not as root.
Is it wrong to issuer this command as user? I setted up podman to use easyepg as user not as root.
Maybe that's why the container not starts during boot?

Which podman owner are you using @stacksofplates : user or root?

I'm using user but not that way. I put the service in /etc/systemd/system and set a user in the unit file. So I still start it with sudo systemctl restart plex but systemd uses the user defined in the unit file to run the service.

Woti

@stacksofplates said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:

@Woti said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:
Hei, I wanted to try your solution. Først, I wanted to run meg container setup but I get this error:
systemctl --user status container-easyepg.service
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
I haven't changed anything since the last time and the container file exists...
I can start it in Cockpit but not in the console. Strange...

I figured out: I need to issue the above command as user not as root.
Is it wrong to issuer this command as user? I setted up podman to use easyepg as user not as root.
Maybe that's why the container not starts during boot?

Which podman owner are you using @stacksofplates : user or root?
I'm using user but not that way. I put the service in /etc/systemd/system and set a user in the unit file. So I still start it with sudo systemctl restart plex but systemd uses the user defined in the unit file to run the service.

Okay. I have mine in /home/user/.config... one or another hidden directory created by podman generate commando.
Stupid question maybe: but what is the unit file?

stacksofplates

@Woti said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:

@stacksofplates said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:
@Woti said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:
Hei, I wanted to try your solution. Først, I wanted to run meg container setup but I get this error:
systemctl --user status container-easyepg.service
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
I haven't changed anything since the last time and the container file exists...
I can start it in Cockpit but not in the console. Strange...

I figured out: I need to issue the above command as user not as root.
Is it wrong to issuer this command as user? I setted up podman to use easyepg as user not as root.
Maybe that's why the container not starts during boot?

Which podman owner are you using @stacksofplates : user or root?
I'm using user but not that way. I put the service in /etc/systemd/system and set a user in the unit file. So I still start it with sudo systemctl restart plex but systemd uses the user defined in the unit file to run the service.
Okay. I have mine in /home/user/.config... one or another hidden directory created by podman generate commando.
Stupid question maybe: but what is the unit file?

It's the .service file. They're called units because there's a handful of different types (service, timer, path, target, etc)

Woti

Finally I found the solution here on github: https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/5494

I used podman v1.8.0 this time I generated the easyepg.service file with podman generate. There was a bug in this version which not generated default.target. In later version it is fixed. Now it is working

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target

stacksofplates

@Woti said in Fedora 31 Server, podman and SELinux:

Finally I found the solution here on github: https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/5494

I used podman v1.8.0 this time I generated the easyepg.service file with podman generate. There was a bug in this version which not generated default.target. In later version it is fixed. Now it is working
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target

Ah ok. I don't use the generate hardly ever because it kind of defeats the purpose of a container. It hard codes the hash for the container instead of a name for some reason.

Woti

I see I haven't tried your solution yet. But I did read about your kind of solution on Redhat Access sites.
The case with default.target is that, if podman containers runs as user they have no access on multi-user.target through systemd. If I did understand right That's why you have to use default.target instead.

I'll try your solution in a VM soonly.