"Could not change policy booleans"

[Paul Howarth]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 10:00 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>> Nils Caspar wrote:
>>>>>> That should have been solved by an update to dbus in fc6 a month ago.
>>>>> What Fedora
>>>>>> release are you running? Are you completely updated?
>>>>> I'm running a full updated fedora 7.
>>>>>
>>>>>> That should have worked. That should be the correct syntax. Was there
>>>>> an avc
>>>>>> associated with trying to set this?
>>>>> There was no other warning.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the same problem in an other fedora 7 VM. Maybe it's a fedora 7
>>>>> bug... :(
>>>> I've just hit the same problem on a fresh Fedora 7 install, with all 
>>>> released updates.
>>>>
>>>> Paul.
>>>>
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>>> Does this fix the problem?
>>>
>>> restorecon -R -v /etc/selinux/targeted
>> No; there are no AVC denials in the audit log (at least not relating to 
>> this...) so I don't think it's an SELinux permissions issue.
>>
>> Updating to the latest selinux package updates from updates-testing 
>> hasn't helped either.
> 
> Bug in setsebool (it is actually succeeding, but falling through to the
> error path and thus incorrectly saying that it failed, as a result of a
> "build fix").  Fixed in policycoreutils 2.0.21.

Ah, saves me having to put something in an initscript :-)

FC7 has policycoreutils-2.0.16-5.fc7 (from updates-testing), which seems 
a long way behind 2.0.21. Is a fix likely any time soon?

Paul.