no more desktop after 20060720 updates

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 02:23:21 UTC 2006


On 7/23/06, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Tom London wrote:
> > On 7/23/06, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> >> It sounds like you have the same limitation due to selinux that I have.
> >> I added enforcing=0 in grub.conf since the problem is so long without
> >> a fix.
> >> The problem I believe is related to one of the mesa libraries.
> >>
> >> Basically, what you are seeing is a system without a windows manager.
> >> (compare to program manager in windows)
> >> Therefore, all you have is the last application pegged on your desktop
> >> in the upper left corner.
> >>
> >> You could try running 'setenforce 0' in a root terminal and then logout
> >> of kde and starting gnome instead. Gnome should start if your problem is
> >> related to selinux.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> > BTW, rawhide  has fixed SELinux issue for a while (at least for me).....
> >
> > tom
>
> Have you downgraded any packages or ran any SELinux incantations? It is
> still busted when I tested it after your comment that it was fixed in
> rawhide.
>
> Jim
> --
> "Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon."
>
The only package I downgraded was xorg-x11-xinit from -8 back to -7.
Also moved /etc/X11/xinit/xintrc.d/localuser.sh out of the way.

Otherwise, I think I'm running the latest rawhide packages,
targeted/enforcing, with allow_execmem=0.

tom

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Tom London




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