Re: selinux broke httpd: libxml2.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission denied

[Paul Howarth]

On 25/03/10 02:57, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>  Hi.  httpd used to work but now does not start up.
>
>  Error message:
>
>       Starting httpd: Syntax error on line X of /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf:
>       Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so into server:
>  libxml2.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Permission
>  denied
>
>  I can start httpd if I turn off SElinux, but I want to figure this out
>  and re-enable
>  SELinux.
>
>
>  SElinux labels on libxml.so.2.6.26 are OK ( system_u:object_r:lib_t )
>  and "restorecon -n libxml.so.2.6.26" does not return anything so the
>  labels match default.  (libxml.so.2 is a symlink to 2.6.26)
>
>  No recent AVC denied entries in /var/log/audit/audit.log or
>  /var/log/messages. (One did not get logged when I tried to start httpd
>  and failed.)
>
>  I googled the above error message but all I could find were web pages in Chinese
>  advising to run restorecon on libxml2.so file or turn off SElinux.
>
>  Any suggestions on how to investigate this? 
Has libxml2 on your system recently changed, and if so, where did it 
come from?

Paul.