Problem after installing selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Fri Sep 23 21:20:13 UTC 2005
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
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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