FC8: selinux stops cupsd from starting

Matt Thompson matthew.thompson at nrl.navy.mil
Wed Dec 12 16:55:55 UTC 2007


I am having a problem with cupsd on my FC8 box.  Namely, it only seems 
to want to start on reboot.  If I try to start it later I get:

# service cups start
Starting cups: /bin/bash: /usr/sbin/cupsd: Permission denied
                                                            [FAILED]

and then audit.log sayeth:
type=SELINUX_ERR msg=audit(1197478409.420:673): security_compute_sid: 
invalid context user_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 for 
scontext=user_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:cupsd_exec_t:s0 tclass=process

This seems to be the same bug as in #390391:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390391

but none of the fixes in that seemed to work.

More detail can be found at the bug, but I thought I'd ask here in case 
the answer was well known and my bugzilla-search-fu was lacking.

Thanks for any help,
Matt Thompson

-- 
Matt Thompson, PhD
Naval Research Laboratory
202-767-2160




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