lost most gdm features/functions after today's update...

[Rahul]

Tom London wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 07:40 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
>> > On Friday 07 July 2006 01:34, Clifford Snow wrote:
>> > > Localhost kernel: audit(1152216505.513:285): avc: denied {execmem 
>> } for
>> > > pid=2408 com="metacity" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0
>> > > tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
>> > >
>> > > Is this an error of metacity or a problem with selinux?
>> >
>> > This would appear to be a problem with metacity (or one of the 
>> libraries it
>> > links with). Programs that are securely written do not need execmem. 
>> The
>> > question is why did this pop up yesterday? Looking through the rawhide
>> > reports, I don't see metacity being updated this week. I suspect its 
>> caused
>> > by a library that links with metacity.
>>
>> It's libGL (as becomes obvious when you go to launch metacity from a
>> terminal :-)
>>
>> This was being looked at yesterday afternoon by some of the X guys
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
> Intersting, but this still fails for me if I boot with 'enforcing=0'
> and/or I set 'allow_execmem=1'.
> 
> tom
> 
> [I'm running on an Thinkpad X41, with Intel 915GM/GMS/910GML Express
> graphics card.]

Exactly how does it fail?

Rahul