Fedora 12 update causing SELinux alerts [SOLVED]

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Jan 20 22:17:09 UTC 2010


On 01/20/2010 04:49 PM, Roger wrote:
> On 01/21/2010 12:12 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>> On 01/20/2010 10:15 AM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>>    
>>> After upgrading from Fedora 11 to 12 I now receive the following SELinux
>>> alerts
>>>
>>> SELinux is preventing /sbin/setfiles "read" access on
>>>
>>>      
>> After using yum to find RPMs that affect users I reinstalled
>> xdg-user-dirs and that fixed the problem. Hopefully this will save
>> someone else the trouble.
>>
>>    
> I too, found that F12 has SELinux alerts for just about everything, even 
> in permissive mode.
> After 16 hours use it produced several screens fulls of alerts.
> Roger
Updating to the latest selinux-policy 

# yum update selinux-policy-targeted
# setsebool -P allow_execstack 1

Should quite most if not all AVC's, if you still see some, I would advise you to report these as bugzilla.
And I would check if you have a labeling problem.


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