On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I ran up2date to get selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm. up2date
> hung for a very long time at the end of the installation, so finally, I
> killed it. At that point, I had two versions of selinux-policy-targeted
> installed. Verifying each showed that all the files were correct for the
> new version. But just to be safe (oops), I deleted both and tried to
> reinstall
> selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm.
>
> Running up2date now produces:
>
> # up2date
> Could not set exec context to root:sysadm_r:rpm_t.
I am updating the policy to put this role back in. Will /usr/sbin/up2date
work?
Yes, as long as I become root first.
>
> and fails to run. After setenforce 0, I still get the message and up2date
> runs.
>
> Forcing a reinstall of selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm has no
> effect. Rebooting has no effect. Relabeling on reboot has no effect.
> (Actually, after relabeling, rpm --verify produces
>
> # rpm --verify selinux-policy-targeted
> S.5....T. /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs
> )
>
> So far, other things appear to work normally, but up2date does not work.
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Messages in audit.log are:
>
> type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1127508331.874:1624469): user pid=3328 uid=0
> auid=4294967295 msg='PAM authentication: user=root
> exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=?
result=Success)'
> type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(1127508331.874:1624478): user pid=3328 uid=0
> auid=4294967295 msg='PAM accounting: user=root
exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper"
> (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? result=Success)'
> type=USER_START msg=audit(1127508331.884:1626823): user pid=3328 uid=0
> auid=4294967295 msg='PAM session open: user=root
exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper"
> (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? result=Success)'
> type=USER_END msg=audit(1127508331.901:1627077): user pid=3328 uid=0
> auid=4294967295 msg='PAM session close: user=root
> exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=?
result=Success)'
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs