Cannot write to /etc/samba/smb.conf. Program will now exit.

[DAVID BENTLEY]

 --- Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 21:30 +0100, DAVID BENTLEY
> wrote:
> >  --- Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote: 
> > > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 23:35 +0100, DAVID BENTLEY
> > > wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:24, DAVID BENTLEY
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > I set all of my SAMBA shares up before
> doing
> > > any
> > > > > > updates and now if I try to edit them or
> add
> > > new
> > > > > > shares I get the following error message
> :-
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Cannot write to /etc/samba/smb.conf. 
> Program
> > > will
> > > > > now
> > > > > > exit.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I will see if it works in the original
> kernel
> > > next
> > > > > but
> > > > > > I am surprised that there has been no
> mention
> > > of
> > > > > this
> > > > > > before now.
> > > > 
> > > > >  --- John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > > Are you getting SELinux messages (e.g.
> audit(*):
> > > > > avc:) in
> > > > > /var/log/messages about access denied? If so
> > > you're
> > > > > running afoul of the
> > > > > SELinux security policy. If you're running
> >=
> > > FC3t2
> > > > > SELinux targeted
> > > > > policy is in effect. What is the avc
> message?
> > > > > -- 
> > > > 
> > > > I am using a fully updated core3 test 3 and I
> > > don't
> > > > see any avc message but there are messages at
> boot
> > > > regarding what selinux policy is in effect as
> > > follows 
> > > > 
> > > > 18 22:46:17 bentledr-1 kernel: SELinux: 
> Starting
> > > in
> > > > permissive mode
> > > > Oct 18 22:46:17 bentledr-1 kernel: There is
> > > already a
> > > > security framework initialized,
> register_security
> > > > failed.
> > > > Oct 18 22:46:17 bentledr-1 kernel:
> > > > selinux_register_security:  Registering
> secondary
> > > > module capability
> > > 
> > > When running it on the command line, do you get
> any
> > > kind of python
> > > traceback, if so please post it.
> > > 
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File
> > "/usr/share/system-config-samba/shareWindow.py",
> line
> > 537, in onOkEditButtonClicked
> >     self.samba_data.writeFile()
> >   File
> > "/usr/share/system-config-samba/sambaParser.py",
> line
> > 173, in writeFile
> >     raise RuntimeError, (_("Cannot write to %s. 
> > Program will now exit." % path))
> > RuntimeError: Cannot write to /etc/samba/smb.conf.
> 
> > Program will now exit.
> 
> This is the same as
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?
> id=135946 -- fixed in system-config-samba-1.2.21-1,
> grab it from
>
http://people.redhat.com/nphilipp/BETA/system-config-samba/
> if it hasn't
> already hit the mirrors.
> 

Yes it fixes the problem OK but you still get all
these warning messages when run from the terminal.

/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py:113:
DeprecationWarning: use gtk.UIManager
  item_fac = gtk.ItemFactory(gtk.MenuBar, "<main>",
accel_group)
/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py:138:
DeprecationWarning:
  button = self.toolbar.insert_stock('gtk-add', _("Add
a samba share"), None, self.onNewButtonClicked, None,
0)
/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py:143:
DeprecationWarning:
  self.properties_button =
self.toolbar.insert_stock('gtk-properties', _("Edit
the properties of the selected directory"), None,
self.onPropertiesButtonClicked, None, 1)
/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py:148:
DeprecationWarning:
  self.delete_button =
self.toolbar.insert_stock('gtk-delete', _("Delete the
selected directory"), None,
self.onDeleteButtonClicked, None, 2)
/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py:153:
DeprecationWarning:
  self.toolbar.insert_stock('gtk-help', _("View
help"), None, self.onHelpClicked, None, 3)