F16--Something went wrong in Gnome...

[Antonio M]

2011/11/9 Niels Weber <nathelbiya at gmail.com>:
> 2011/11/9 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/11/9 Niels Weber <nathelbiya at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a similar issue.
>>>
>>> 2011/11/9 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>:
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>>>> On 11/08/2011 07:15 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>>>> On 11/08/2011 04:10 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>>>>> I rebooted disabling Selinux on the command line and I could use
>>>>>> Gnome, then I restarted and system relabeled all files and I
>>>>>> could login in Gnome. No idea what was going on, but that's it
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm glad you found it.  The reason I asked was that I've seen
>>>>> people blame SELinux for random problems so often without the
>>>>> slightest evidence that it's involved that I tend to be skeptical
>>>>> about such claims unless there are alerts.  BTW, when you were
>>>>> using KDE did you check the troubleshooter for alerts?  I'm not
>>>>> sure if they'd still be there at this point, but it would be nice
>>>>> to know if there were any and what they were.
>>>> If you have a problem with SELinux please boot in permissive mode and
>>>> not disabled, to report what SELinux is complaining about.  That way
>>>> we can figure out what the problem is and hopefully fix it for others.
>>>>  Usually it is a minor labeling problem.  If you turn SELinux back on,
>>>> the system should relabel itself, and the problem will be fixed.
>>>
>>> the login screen didn't work, switching to runlevel 3 and startx worked though.
>>> Setting selinux to permissive allowed the login screen to run.
>>> Relabelling the file system didn't help at all.
>>>
>>>> If you still have the auditlogs availabel could you email me the
>>>> compressed output of
>>>>
>>>> ausearch -m avc
>>>
>>> There is nothing in the timeframe in the output.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>    Niels
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>>
>> Are you sure to have relabeled ?? or did you switch from permissive to
>> targeted???
>> Just to clear
>
> I did a
> touch /.autorelabel
> and rebooted.
> I think it said something about rebuilding the targeted setup and it
> took quite some time.
>
> Niels
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I would disable (not permissive) Selinux, boot, then enable again  and
reboot again, in order to have labeling at boot-time.
Just a shot in the dark (but it is what I did)

Antonio Montagnani
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