SELinux ate my bookmarks in F9

[Michael Wiktowy]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Michael Wiktowy
<michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I triggered a Wine app to open up a URL link and Firefox opened up and
> things went downhill from there. I'm guessing that Wine somehow
> corrupted all the contexts of the Firefox bookmark/places/etc. storage
> files and now SELinux is preventing any of them from being accessed
> ... even after opening up Firefox normally.
>
> Here is an example of the error output by setroubleshoot (but they
> just keep coming for various Firefox related Target Objects every 10
> seconds or so ... on opening Firefox, about 40 are generated
> immediately):
>
> Summary:
>
> SELinux is preventing firefox from creating a file with a context of unlabeled_t
> on a filesystem.

Created:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448031

For anyone else that stumbles across this, a 'restorecon -R
~<user>/.mozilla' as root will get things back to normal with no data
loss. At least it did for me ... at least until the next time I open a
URL with a Wine app ...

/Mike