Cannot login to F15 without nomodeset

[Manilal K M]

On 27 April 2011 22:03, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 04/27/2011 11:51 AM, Per Bothner wrote:
>> On 04/27/2011 05:22 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>> On 04/27/2011 02:45 AM, Per Bothner wrote:
>>>> (I'm still having problems with symlinks from /var/www/html
>>>> into /home.  The fix that worked on F13 and F14 no longer works,
>>>> and the SeLinux Alert Browser isn't as helpful as it used to be.)
>>> Per Bothner, send me the AVC's you are struggling with and I will see if
>>> I can help you, also the alert that is not being helpful.
>>
>> I link /var/www/html/per to /home/bothner/public_html.
>>
>> The SELinux Alert browser gives me a number of options, the first of which
>> was to do:
>>   /sbin/restorecon -v /home
>> After doing that, and refreshing the web  browser then the alert browser
>> suggests
>>    /sbin/restorecon -v /home/bothner
>> Then it suggests:
>>   /sbin/restorecon -v /home/bothner/public_html
>> Now it wants:
>>   /sbin/restorecon -v /home/bothner/public_html/index.html
>> Clearly this is not the right path - I can't individually relabel every
>> single file.
>>
>> The next alternative it suggests
>>   If you think this is caused by a badly mislabeled machine.
>>   Then you need to fully relabel.
>>   Do
>>   touch /.autorelabel; reboot
>>
>> I haven't tried that yet since I'm expecting that to take a long time.
>> It is possible that is the issue - the files were copied over (using tar)
>> from a different laptop, which may not have carried SELinux lae\bel over.
>> (I'm unclear on this.)
>>
>> The suggestion I found particularly unhelpful is:
>>
>>   If you want to allow httpd to have getattr access on the index.html file
>>   Then you need to change the label on /home/bothner/public_html/index.html
>>   Do
>>   # semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE
>> '/home/bothner/public_html/index.html'
>>   where FILE_TYPE is one of the following: [[long list]].
>>   Then execute:
>>   restorecon -v '/home/bothner/public_html/index.html'
>>
>> First, I can't figure out what in the [[long list]] is appropriate.
>> Second, the "then" part suggests this might only fix one file at a time.
>>
>> I'm guessing the "full relabel" is the right thing.
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> Do you have
> httpd_enable_homedirs turned on?
>
> setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1
>
> What avc's are you seeing?

It seems the the httpd issue is not related to the original post.
Please don't hijack the thread as it will confuse users.

regards
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