Semanage command having python issue

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I’m trying to make selinux permissive for one of the process (drbd) in Almalinux 8.8 and I’m facing the below python issue while using semanage command,

[root@dnd-st-6-0-0-28-lt-ha1 admin]# semanage permissive -a drbd_t
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/sbin/semanage”, line 1000, in
do_parser()
File “/sbin/semanage”, line 970, in do_parser
commandParser = createCommandParser()
File “/sbin/semanage”, line 900, in createCommandParser
import seobject
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/seobject.py”, line 33, in
import sepolicy
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sepolicy/init.py”, line 7, in
import setools
File “/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setools/init.py”, line 24, in
version = pkg_resources.get_distribution(“setools”).version
AttributeError: module ‘pkg_resources’ has no attribute ‘get_distribution’

[admin@dnd-st-6-0-0-28-lt-ha1 ~]$ cat /etc/release
AlmaLinux release 8.8 (Sapphire Caracal)
Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 (Source)
AlmaLinux release 8.8 (Sapphire Caracal)
NAME=“AlmaLinux”
VERSION=“8.8 (Sapphire Caracal)”
ID=“almalinux”
ID_LIKE=“rhel centos fedora”
VERSION_ID=“8.8”
PLATFORM_ID=“platform:el8”
PRETTY_NAME=“AlmaLinux 8.8 (Sapphire Caracal)”
ANSI_COLOR=“0;34”
LOGO=“fedora-logo-icon”
CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:almalinux:almalinux:8::baseos”
HOME_URL=“https://almalinux.org/”

ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT="AlmaLinux-8"
ALMALINUX_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8.8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="AlmaLinux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.8"
AlmaLinux release 8.8 (Sapphire Caracal)
AlmaLinux release 8.8 (Sapphire Caracal)
cpe:/o:almalinux:almalinux:8::baseos

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Srini

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On my Alma 8:

[AL8 ~]# dnf --enablerepo=powertools provides */seobject.py
python3-policycoreutils-2.9-24.el8.noarch : SELinux policy core python3 interfaces
Repo        : @System
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/seobject.py

[AL8 ~]# dnf --enablerepo=powertools provides *sepolicy/init.py
Error: No Matches found
[AL8 ~]# dnf --enablerepo=powertools provides *setools/init.py
Error: No Matches found
[AL8 ~]# cat /etc/almalinux-release
AlmaLinux release 8.8 (Sapphire Caracal)

I don’t have even the /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sepolicy/init.py … Wait! It is
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sepolicy/__init__.py but your post shows that as bold.
The sepolicy/__init__.py is in python3-policycoreutils too, and the
The setools/__init__.py is in python3-setools.

My /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py defines function get_distribution(dist).

[AL8 ~]# semanage permissive --add drbd_t
[AL8 ~]# semanage permissive --list

Builtin Permissive Types 


Customized Permissive Types

drbd_t
[AL8 ~]# semanage permissive --delete drbd_t
libsemanage.semanage_direct_remove_key: Removing last permissive_drbd_t module (no other permissive_drbd_t module exists at another priority).
[AL8 ~]# semanage permissive --list
[AL8 ~]#

The pkg_resources is in package platform-python-setuptools. Is that ok/up to date?

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Thanks jlehtone for the reply. After your reply, I found that platform-python-setuptools is not properly installed.

Thought it is installed, the python files are not found.

[root@test admin]# rpm -ql platform-python-setuptools-39.2.0-7.el8.noarch | grep init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/extern/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/_vendor/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/_vendor/packaging/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/command/init.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/extern/init.py

[root@test admin]# ls -l /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/init.py
ls: cannot access ‘/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py’: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access ‘/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/init.py’: No such file or directory
[root@test admin]#

Reinstalling platform-python-setuptools-39.2.0-7.el8.noarch solves the problem. I will further look into it.

Thanks for the pointer and help.

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