Rawhide: selinux: "Unable to get valid context for <username>"

[Jim Meyering]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Anyone seeing this error?  Unless I boot with enforcing=0, I see
> this error when I try to log in as any user:
>
>   Unable to get valid context for <username>
>
> It seems like it's just started happening, since I upgraded something
> within the last 1-2 weeks.

Hi Rich,

I'm using 3.0-0.rc3.git5.1.fc16.x86_64 in enforcing mode (of course ;-)
and don't see any problem when logging in via ssh:

    h$ ssh r date
    Sun Jun 19 18:34:32 CEST 2011
    h$ ssh r
    Last login: Sun Jun 19 18:33:11 2011 from 192.168.122.1
    r$                                                                          :

Everything is up to date, at least wrt whatever mirror I'm using.
My shell on that system is zsh;  but I got the same result when
temporarily switching it to bash.

> Is there any way to debug this error further?

If you're seeing it on a console, strace agetty or whatever
you're using as the server.  If via ssh, strace sshd.