failed to customize policy, SELinux won't let me

[Florin Andrei]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:19 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 10:05 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > [root at stantz custom]# semodule -i local.pp
> > libsemanage.semanage_commit_sandbox: Error while
> > renaming /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active
> > to /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/previous.
> > semodule:  Failed!
> > [root at stantz custom]# tail -n 1 /var/log/messages
> > May  3 10:02:51 stantz kernel: audit(1146675771.487:308): avc:  denied
> > { rename } for  pid=3845 comm="semodule" name="active" dev=hda4
> > ino=2319743 scontext=user_u:system_r:semanage_t:s0
> > tcontext=user_u:object_r:selinux_config_t:s0 tclass=dir
> 
> Yes, this has shown up before - it indicates that
> your /etc/selinux/targeted/modules tree has become mislabeled.  Run
> restorecon -R on it.  I think that this has been corrected already in
> updates?

I rebooted the system and this happened again. :-(
I did a restorecon again and now it's working fine.

This is not right.

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Florin Andrei

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