LibreOffice and Evolution will not print

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Jun 6 18:54:46 UTC 2011


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On 06/06/2011 02:51 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 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.


Joe can you send me an example of the AVC you are seeing?  Is this F15?
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