perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Mark Feit <>]

Cas D'Angelo writes:

I upgraded a RHEL 6.9 testpoint today using "yum install perfsonar-testpoint" and it seems to have broken sudo. 

$ sudo pwd
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers.d/pscheduler-tool-paris-traceroute: Alias `PSCHEDULER_TOOL_PARIS_TRACEROUTE' already defined near line 4 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers.d/pscheduler-tool-ping: Alias `PSCHEDULER_TOOL_PING' already defined near line 4 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers.d/pscheduler-tool-traceroute: Alias `PSCHEDULER_TOOL_TRACEROUTE' already defined near line 4 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers.d/pscheduler-tool-paris-traceroute near line 4
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

The very first version of the pscheduler-tool-ping package had a mistake that duplicated the PSCHEDULER_TOOL_TRACEROUTE alias and caused a problem like that.  However, it was a very short-lived mistake that predates even the first betas:  the code was put into Git on June 2, 2016 and the mistake was corrected the following day.

You should be able to clean this up by doing the following:

·         yum -y erase pscheduler-tool-ping pscheduler-tool-paris-traceroute

·         Verify that your YUM configuration points to the current production repo.

·         rm -f /etc/sudoers.d/pscheduler-tool-ping /etc/sudoers.d/pscheduler-tool-paris-traceroute

·         yum -y install pscheduler-bundle-full

Before doing that, I’d be interested to see what “rpm -qi pscheduler-tool-ping” and “rpm -qi pscheduler-tool-traceroute” have to say about the versions of those packages you have installed.

--Mark