Linker weirdness: "could not read symbols: Invalid operation"

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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:48 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> > > "could not read symbols: Invalid operation"
> > 
> > Could "Invalid operation" be an error message that corresponds to
> > an error from a system call?  Apply 'strace' to the link step
> > to see what happens shortly before the write() to stderr.
> 
> Huh. That's odd. When I run the exact command that was run during the
> compile (copy/paste), it succeeds. Makes doing the above a bit hard :)
> 
> Gonna run the build through mock and see what happens...

That sounds like a SELinux policy issue. Are you getting any AVCs?