LibreOffice and Evolution will not print

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Mon Jun 6 18:51:55 UTC 2011


On 06/06/2011 08:07 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Please do not suggest to turn SELinux off at boot everytime something
> goes wrong on a Fedora System.  As root you can turn SELinux into
> permissive mode.   setenforce 0, then try your application, if it works
> then SELinux is probably the problem, if it fails SELinux is not the
> problem and you can turn SELinux enforcement back on.  setenforce 1.
> Your method will cause a relabel when SELinux is turned back on.

Not only that, if you have the SELinux Troubleshooter working (and you 
should, you know) it will pop an alert if and when there's a problem 
with SELinux.  I have BOINC running and one of the projects is 
Einstein at home.  For some reason, SELinux doesn't understand that all of 
the Einstein projects need to have access to certain device files and it 
keeps complaining.  Granted, the projects are run in permissive mode so 
that the access isn't blocked, but it's a tad monotonous to have to 
reset the context for almost every project I do.  (There doesn't seem to 
be an overall fix for this because it's filename specific.)  If you're 
not getting any alerts, there's almost no chance that SELinux is involved.


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