yumex repeatedly upgrading openoffice.org-core-2.0.2-5.11.2 and accompanying files
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed May 31 08:27:15 UTC 2006
Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 22:49 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I see yumex is busy downloading and installing it for the second time.
>>> Thats a repeat of the 140 megabytes it downloaded and installed about 24
>>> hours ago.
>>>
>>> Any Idea why?
>>>
>> SELinux has interfered with the %post and %pre scriptlets contained
>> within the rpm installation packages before with pup and yum itself in
>> the past.
>>
>> try running 'setenforce 0' before running the yumex updating program.
>> The scriptlets should run successfully when SELinux only warns instead
>> of denies.
>>
>> %pre scriptlet failures usually kill the updating program. %post
>> scriptlet errors usually report the program was installed but never
>> actually complete the successful installation of the programs.
>>
>> Filing a report related to yumex and a mention of an SELinux problem
>> might help get yumex and SELinux working together instead of in separate
>> directions would be possible after the problem(s) corrected.
>
> I thought this issue was fixed a long time ago. Gene, do you have the
> latest selinux-policy and yumex packages installed?
>
> In order to run scriptlets properly, yumex needs to have the rpm_exec_t
> SELinux file context:
>
> # semanage fcontext -l | grep yumex
> /usr/share/yumex/yumex regular file
> system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t:s0
>
> So /usr/share/yumex/yumex should be rpm_exec_t; you can use:
>
> $ ls -lZ /usr/share/yumex/yumex
>
> to verify if this is the case.
>
> Paul.
>
The system is fully uptodate except for the madwifi stuff which I don't
need. And:
[root at diablo log]# ls -lZ /usr/share/yumex/yumex
-rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t
/usr/share/yumex/yumex
so it is not doing any further repeats.
--
Cheers, Gene
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