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    # aa-status --enabled  && echo "AppArmor Enabled"
    AppArmor Enabled

    # aa-status | egrep '(profiles|thunderbird)'
    54 profiles are loaded.
    21 profiles are in enforce mode.
       thunderbird
       thunderbird//browser_java
       thunderbird//browser_openjdk
       thunderbird//gpg
       thunderbird//sanitized_helper
    33 profiles are in complain mode.
    6 processes have profiles defined.
       thunderbird (32689)


dmesg shows the following apparmor DENIED messages:

    [62711.954571] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437094.186:58): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="thunderbird" name="/run/user/1000/xauth-1000-_0" pid=32700 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
    [62711.960341] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437094.194:59): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="thunderbird" name="/run/user/1000/xauth-1000-_0" pid=32689 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
    [62711.971343] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437094.202:60): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mkdir" profile="thunderbird" name="/run/user/1000/thunderbird_sdowdy/" pid=32689 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
    [62711.971925] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437094.206:61): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="thunderbird" name="/run/user/1000/xauth-1000-_0" pid=32689 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
    [62712.747197] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437094.978:62): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="thunderbird" name="/run/user/1000/xauth-1000-_0" pid=32689 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
    [62712.895221] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437095.126:63): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="thunderbird" name="/etc/xdg/mimeapps.list" pid=32689 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
    [63310.628483] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437692.863:64): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" profile="thunderbird" name="/run/user/1000/nsemail.eml" pid=32689 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
    [63310.671468] audit: type=1400 audit(1527437692.907:65): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="thunderbird" name="/run/user/1000/xauth-1000-_0" pid=32689 comm="thunderbird" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000

    $ env | grep /run/user
    TMPDIR=/run/user/1000/
    GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
    DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
    XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/xauth-1000-_0

I suspect because i explicitly set TMPDIR to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (something that should be pretty normal, even better than using /tmp, IMHO), that AppArmor should allow for this.
(i'm not entirely sure that's the issue, but it seems likely)


Also, for general purposes...
I did choose to allow/use maintainer's version of AppArmor configuration in the recent update, however, i think you should respect the existing enforce/complain/disable state of the user's system, as i'd previously done:

    aa-complain /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird
    (which i am back to now in order to keep working)


thanks,
--stephen

Hello intri, hello Vincas,

this looks like something you guys should have a look at please. Thanks!

@intrigeri
The uploads of TB 52.8.0 to stretch- and jessie-security did have
cherry-picked your reverted commit c33dba2f from unstable so the issue
of the user are not related to this modification I guess.

Am 27.05.2018 um 18:54 schrieb Stephen Dowdy:

I'll take a look into this.

I've reproduced it.

This is yet another sign how we need use more variables in AppArmor, and
it needs to be fixed not only for Thunderbird, as $TMPDIR change will
affect other confined applications too.

I'll continue discussion in AppArmor mailing list to see how to approach
it better.

P.S. Also, waiting for AppArmor 2.13 in Debian ;)

(Retitling to clarify which condition is needed to trigger the bug,
downgrading severity as this AppArmor profile is disabled by default.)

Helllo,

Stephen, while we are discussing this, I'd like to give you an easy
workaround:

Edit /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/alias and add this line:

    alias /tmp/ -> /run/user/1000/,

This will (additionally) allow /run/user/1000/ whenever a profile says
/tmp/

If you need a solution that works for all users (and is a bit less
strict because it only enforces that the directory name has to start
with a digit)

    alias /tmp/ -> /run/user/[0-9]*/,


After adding the alias, reload all AppArmor profiles.

The alias will "fix" all profiles, not only the thunderbird profile.


Regards,

Christian Boltz

PS: Can someone who knows the Debian bugtracker better please tag this
    bug so that we get notifications on pkg-apparmor?

Somehow i missed this earlier...

I had to revisit this, because

      # grep apparmor /var/log/dpkg.log
      2018-11-16 07:21:25 conffile /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.thunderbird install

re-broke things.  (sigh, my workplace daily notices were throwing more apparmor="DENIED" traps and leaving my message-pane blank.
(would be nice if there was a tool for the desktop to issue notifications in these cases.  maybe there is, but my lack of searching for it has amazingly not revealed it! ;))

Seems that the latest thunderbird update should honor the aa-complain status of my system.

Looking at :  /var/lib/dpkg/info/thunderbird.postinst

I see some logic that looks like i should be using a "disable" link.  That seems like it would be different, however, than just setting it to 'complain' mode.
(I don't mind having it complaining and logging, but it's a lot more unfriendly to just disable it on my part, or to re-enable enforcing when i am in complain mode)
I dunno if i should file a bug report on that :-/  (i see that this bug is still in 'thunderbird', and the apparmor file is dpkg-owned by thunderbird, so maybe just consider this comment a bug report addition)

Anyway, i implemented your workaround.  I may test it out with aa-enabled again at some point just to make sure it's working.

thanks,
--stephen

Hello,

Am Dienstag, 20. November 2018, 17:46:27 CET schrieb Stephen Dowdy:

You are probably looking for
    sudo /usr/sbin/aa-notify -p --display $DISPLAY -w 10
(no idea if /var/log/audit/audit.log is readable for users on Debian -
if it is, you can run aa-notify without sudo)

Right, disable and compain mode are different.

The "disable" symlinks will completely disable the profile (it will
prevent loading it), which means running Thunderbird unconfined.

Complain mode means to load the profile, allow everything [1], and log
things that would be denied.

Typically complain mode gets set by adding   flags=(complain)   to the
profile. There's an alternative solution - you can create a symlink in
/etc/apparmor.d/force-complain/ . While a force-complain symlink makes
things easier for package management, there's a known issue: the binary
profile cache won't be used for those profiles, so loading the profiles
on startup is slower.

If the file belongs to Thunderbird, the bugreport also belongs there ;-)
(and there are enough AppArmor people in CC)


Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] There's one exception: explicit "deny" rules will be enforced even
    in complain mode.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
thunderbird, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 900210@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de> (supplier of updated thunderbird package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:41:06 +0200
Source: thunderbird
Architecture: source
Version: 1:152.0-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de>
Changed-By: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de>
Closes: 880424 882218 883245 900210 909281 914403 917613 928178 949450 949649 955380 961269 1127710 1128672 1128876 1138513
Changes:
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   [ Carsten Schoenert ]
   * [5097e09] d/control: Bump B-D for libnss3-dev
   * [5350030] New upstream version 152.0
     (Closes: #1138513)
   * [92962df] Rebuild patch queue from patch-queue branch
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     fixes/Fix-math_private.h-for-i386-FTBFS.patch
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 .
   [ Christoph Goehre ]
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 .
   [ intrigeri ]
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