caught exception in sosreport plugin method "unpackaged.setup()"

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6
  • sos-3.6-7.el7

Issue

Attempt to collect sosreport fails with following message:

# sosreport

sosreport (version 3.6)

...

 Setting up archive ...
 Setting up plugins ...
caught exception in plugin method "unpackaged.setup()"
writing traceback to sos_logs/unpackaged-plugin-errors.txt
 Running plugins. Please wait ...

  Starting 96/104 unpackaged      [Running: processor selinux systemtap unpackaged]       caught exception in plugin method "unpackaged.collect()"
writing traceback to sos_logs/unpackaged-plugin-errors.txt
  Finishing plugins              [Running: unpackaged]                                    ss]
Creating compressed archive...
...

Resolution

Update to sos-3.7-5.el7 shipped with Advisory RHEA-2019:2295 or newer.

Root Cause

Previously, sosreport didn't properly handle case when list of executable files not belonging to a package was empty. This is now fixed and sosreport no longer crashes with exception in this scenario.

  • Component
  • sos

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