APP Armor may prevent DSFW from loading properly

  • Document ID:7024841
  • Creation Date:25-Sep-2020
  • Modified Date:25-Sep-2020
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Open Enterprise Server 2018 SP2(OES 2018 SP2) Linux

Situation

On a new install of DSFW, the following command showed that dsfw had failed loading:
systemctl status xadsd.service with the following errors:

xadsd.server: Start operationtimed out. Terminating.
Failed to start Domain Services Daemon.
xadsd.service: Unit entered failed state.
xadsd.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

Additionally the ndsd_dsfw_healthchk.sh script would not run

Resolution

Disabling App Armor resolved the issue.

NOTE: App Armor can cause issues with other OES services as well.