/var/lib/gdm oddness.

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:17:41PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
 > 
 > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:10 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > Anyone know whats up with the permissions on /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs ?
 > > On upgrade of certain packages, I'm seeing the error..
 > > cannot access /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs: Permission denied
 > > 
 > > ls -l of that shows..
 > > 
 > > d?????????  ? ?    ?       ?                ? .gvfs/
 > > 
 > > My initial thought was 'eek, filesystem corruption'.
 > > Rebooting and running fsck picks up nothing.
 > > And in fact, when in runlevel 1, the permissions look sane.
 > 
 > GNU coreutils ls will show that if it can readdir() but not stat().
 > Normally stat() cannot fail (libc manual only shows ENOENT), but with
 > SELinux it can fail with EACCES.  So my guess is that SELinux policy is
 > denying access to that file.

Due to yesterdays policy breakage, this is still running with enforcing=0
so selinux shouldn't come into it.

	Dave

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