F16--Something went wrong in Gnome...

Niels Weber nathelbiya at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 15:53:03 UTC 2011


Hi,

I have a similar issue.

2011/11/9 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>:
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> On 11/08/2011 07:15 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 11/08/2011 04:10 PM, antonio montagnani wrote:
>>> I rebooted disabling Selinux on the command line and I could use
>>> Gnome, then I restarted and system relabeled all files and I
>>> could login in Gnome. No idea what was going on, but that's it
>>
>> I'm glad you found it.  The reason I asked was that I've seen
>> people blame SELinux for random problems so often without the
>> slightest evidence that it's involved that I tend to be skeptical
>> about such claims unless there are alerts.  BTW, when you were
>> using KDE did you check the troubleshooter for alerts?  I'm not
>> sure if they'd still be there at this point, but it would be nice
>> to know if there were any and what they were.
> If you have a problem with SELinux please boot in permissive mode and
> not disabled, to report what SELinux is complaining about.  That way
> we can figure out what the problem is and hopefully fix it for others.
>  Usually it is a minor labeling problem.  If you turn SELinux back on,
> the system should relabel itself, and the problem will be fixed.

the login screen didn't work, switching to runlevel 3 and startx worked though.
Setting selinux to permissive allowed the login screen to run.
Relabelling the file system didn't help at all.

> If you still have the auditlogs availabel could you email me the
> compressed output of
>
> ausearch -m avc

There is nothing in the timeframe in the output.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
    Niels


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