indexcon errors on Fedora 9 64-bit

[Brian Ginn]

Using lsof, I discovered that indexcon hung at my home directory.

Looking there, I saw a .gvfs directory with rwx------ perms

Even though indexcon was running by root unconfined, I thought this

might be a problem.  I had to kill a few processes to change the

directories permissions.

Then, indexcon got a lot further, but hung at /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64

There, I found a couple symlinks that do not exist.  I removed them.

Then, indexcon errors out with:

ERROR: Could not read SELinux file context for /proc/sys/kernel.

ls -Z /proc/sys/kernel shows all the files have a "?" for the context.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Brian

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 04/13/2009 08:21 PM, Brian Ginn wrote:
> Using lsof, I discovered that indexcon hung at my home directory.
>
> Looking there, I saw a .gvfs directory with rwx------ perms
>
> Even though indexcon was running by root unconfined, I thought this
>
> might be a problem.  I had to kill a few processes to change the
>
> directories permissions.
>
> Then, indexcon got a lot further, but hung at /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
>
> There, I found a couple symlinks that do not exist.  I removed them.
>
> Then, indexcon errors out with:
>      ERROR: Could not read SELinux file context for /proc/sys/kernel.
>
>
>
> ls -Z /proc/sys/kernel shows all the files have a "?" for the context.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
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Seems like a bug, indexcon should probably not be looking into file 
systems that do not support xattrs, and should definitely not hang.