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On 09/01/2011 02:58 PM, cromworshipper-fedorastuff(a)yahoo.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:49:59AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> On 08/31/2011 06:17 PM, John Schmitt wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:13:42AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh
>> wrote:
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>>> On 08/30/2011 07:01 PM, John Schmitt wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:52:54AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> On 08/28/2011 09:23 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>>>>> On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM,
>>>>>> cromworshipper-fedorastuff(a)yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>>>> slim started up fine when this machine was running
>>>>>>> Fedora 14. I installed it from for Fedora 15:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> slim-1.3.2-8.fc15.x86_64
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It doesn't start any more. I get this in
>>>>>>> /var/log/slim.log:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> slim: unexpected signal 15 sh: /usr/bin/xauth:
>>>>>>> Permission denied
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Check the permission of /usr/bin/xauth. They will be
>>>>>> probably ok, so next move will be blaming selinux.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Looks to me like selinux. I would check your labeling
>>>>> on xaut ahd maybe on slim.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> $ ps -eZ | grep -i slim
>>>>
>>>> yields nothing because slim is not running.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>> Well can you logout of the X session and log in via a
>>> termanal or sshd to see what it is running as.
>>
>> I guess I don't understand. The start up process has stopped,
>> systemd says something about 'waiting for plymouth graphical
>> boot screen' to end and then stops. X is not running at this
>> point. I can press ALT+CTRL+F2 to open another terminal
>> session and log in to look at /var/log/messages,
>> /var/log/slim.log, and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>>
>> I don't know if this helps, but I tried it again a few minutes
>> ago and saw this in /var/log/messages:
>>
>> Aug 31 13:17:24 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time
>> over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy ntpd[1047]:
>> 0.0.0.0 c61c 0c clock_step +0.823605 s Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy
>> ntpd[1047]: 0.0.0.0 c614 04 freq_mode Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy
>> systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling
>> restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service
>> holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy
>> systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling
>> restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service
>> holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy
>> systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling
>> restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service
>> start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for helping me with this, Daniel.
>>
>>
>> John
>
>
> Ok get me the output of
>
> ausearch -m avc -ts recent or if audit is not runnind
>
> dmesg | grep avc
$ sudo ausearch -m avc -ts recent <no matches>
$ dmesg | grep -i avc [ 79.382138] dbus[1072]: avc: netlink
poll: error 4
Going back a few days I can see that ausearch reports a lot of AVC
messages regarding wine-preloader and skype, but I can't imagine
they're relevant here.
John
I guess the question then is are we sure this is an SELinux issue?
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