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I just upgraded this system from bookworm to trixie. Upon rebooting
apparmor.service takes 1m25s to clear, with the following logged once
boot completes:
Jul 07 16:52:33 emilia apparmor.systemd[1394]: Too many states (113602) for type state_t
Jul 07 16:52:33 emilia apparmor.systemd[1281]: Error: At least one profile failed to load
I can't find any reference to that 'Too many states' message on either
DuckDuckGo or Google.
This is mostly using my own compiled, .deb packaged, kernel, currently
using 6.12.36 sources, *but* there's no change in the behaviour using
6.12.33+deb13-amd64 from trixie.
There was no such problem under bookworm.
Is there some kernel, or otherwise, tunable that needs increasing? Or
do I have some profile that is blowing things up ? `aa-status` shows
plenty of profiles loaded, with various processes in various
enforce/complain/etc modes.
The `Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE` below is due to the nvidia
binary GPU modules.
Hi Athanasius, Athanasius (2025-07-07): This seems to come from: https://sources.debian.org/src/apparmor/4.1.0-1/parser/libapparmor_re/chfa.cc/?hl=418#L418 I'm wondering if 1 specific profile is causing this, or if the accumulation of all profiles caused it. To debug this you could: 1. Unload all profiles: run aa-teardown 2. Load profiles 1 after the other using apparmor_parser But if you've installed extra 3rd-party profiles yourselves, a quicker next step could be to remove them and try to reproduce the bug. Cheers,
Thanks for your response. I'll reboot with apparmor actually enabled
this afternoon and see if I can track down a specific profile that, or the
accumulated point at which, it breaks.
For now, here's the output of:
$ cd /etc
$ find apparmor.d -type f -exec dpkg -S /etc/{} \; 2>&1 | sort
As you'll see, I *do* have some third-party things installed that have
profiles, I've not checked if they supplied them or if Debian's apparmor
helpfully provided such "just in case". "Discord" is a definite
example. I also have both the Debian LibreOffice *and* the very latest
from upstream installed (the latter installs into /opt, but is via .deb
files so might be placing profiles in /etc/apparmor.d).
Yes, I'm wondering why I still have those `kernel-5.4-*` files....
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/1password
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/Discord
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/MongoDB_Compass
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/QtWebEngineProcess
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/Xorg
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abi/3.0
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abi/4.0
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abi/kernel-5.4-vanilla
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/X
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ruby
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/samba-rpcd
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/smbpass
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/snap_browsers
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ssl_keys
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-browsers.d/text-editors
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-helpers
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-media-players
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-unity7-base
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-unity7-launcher
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/ubuntu-unity7-messaging
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/user-mail
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/user-manpages
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/video
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/vulkan
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/xad
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/cam
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/kchmviewer
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/keybase
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/mmdebstrap
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/msedge
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/obsidian
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/qcam
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/qmapshack
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/qutebrowser
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/runc
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/sbuild-update
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/sbuild-upgrade
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/scide
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/signal-desktop
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/slack
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/slirp4netns
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/steam
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/stress-ng
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/surfshark
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/systemd-coredump
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/toybox
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/transmission
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/trinity
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/alias
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/apparmorfs
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/kernelvars
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/multiarch
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/run
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/share
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/sys
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apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tup
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/tuxedo-control-center
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/unix-chkpwd
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/unprivileged_userns
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/userbindmount
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/uwsgi-core
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/vdens
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/virtiofsd
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/vivaldi-bin
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/vpnns
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/wike
apparmor: /etc/apparmor.d/wpcom
cups-browsed: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cups-browsed
cups-daemon: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.cupsd
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/lsb_release
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/nvidia_modprobe
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.evince
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.man
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.tcpdump
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.thunderbird
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.oosplash
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.senddoc
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.soffice.bin
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.xpdfimport
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.libexec.geoclue
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.cups-browsed
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.cupsd
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.ntpd
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/samba/smbd-shares
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ubuntu
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/xdg-user-dirs.d/site.local
evince: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/evince
evince: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince
geoclue-2.0: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.libexec.geoclue
libreoffice-common: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.oosplash
libreoffice-common: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.senddoc
libreoffice-common: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.soffice.bin
libreoffice-common: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.xpdfimport
lightdm: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/lightdm
lightdm: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/lightdm_chromium-browser
lightdm: /etc/apparmor.d/lightdm-guest-session
man-db: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.man
ntpsec: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/ntpd
ntpsec: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.ntpd
tcpdump: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.tcpdump
thunderbird: /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird
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"And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up.
Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME
So, I decided to clean that up, by removing the Debian LibreOffice packages. That results in *no* apparmor profiles for the suite at all: root@emilia:~; 13:28:13 0$ cd /etc/apparmor.d root@emilia:/etc/apparmor.d; 13:29:31 0$ find . -name \*libreoffice\* root@emilia:/etc/apparmor.d; 13:29:32 0$ And on next boot without `apparmor=0` the problem did not manifest. So, this is either a problem specific to the libreoffice apparmor profiles, or them pushing it over some limit. I do still have the upstream packages for LibreOffice 25.2.4.3, but they don't appear to provide any apparmor profiles. Running: for i in * ; do echo $i: ; dpkg-deb --contents $i ; done | less where I downloaded and unpacked the .deb files confirms this. So, this wasn't a doubling up (would have been with different file paths) of libreoffice rules. Whether this is an overall limit or per profile, I'm curious if that would be specific to apparmor, or in some kernel subsystem it uses, e.g. possibly BPF (guess from my position of ignorance), and maybe tunable ?