Acroread for FC5_64

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Apr 25 11:23:59 UTC 2006


Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Paul and folks,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
>  
>> It's an i386 package but it should run OK on x86_64. The problem
>> you're 
>> having is an SELinux issue that has been covered on this list many
>> times 
>> in the last few weeks.
> 
> Read following threads;
> - FC5, selinux and acroread
> - Selinux attacks acroread again
> 
> 
> Ran following commands;
> 
> chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/acroread/Reader/intellinux/lib/*.so
> 
> chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
> /usr/lib/acroread/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/*.api
> 
> # chcon -t texrel_shlib_t
> /usr/lib/acroread/Reader/intellinux/lib/libJP2K.so
> 
> /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t \
> '/usr/lib/acroread/Reader/intellinux/SPPlugins/.*\.apl'
> 
> /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t \
> '/usr/lib/acroread/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/.*\.api'
> 
> 
> Acroread started but died immediately.  Any suggestion?

If you do "setenforce 0" (as root) and then try again, does it work? If 
so, it's an SELinux issue and something still needs fixing. If not, it's 
an unrelated problem.

You can turn SELinux back to enforcing mode using "setenforce 1" (as root).

Paul.




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