F16--Something went wrong in Gnome...

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 11/09/2011 11:26 AM, Antonio M wrote:
> 2011/11/9 Niels Weber <nathelbiya at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/11/9 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>>> 2011/11/9 Niels Weber <nathelbiya at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a similar issue.
>>>> 
>>>> 2011/11/9 Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>:
>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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?
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Are you sure to have relabeled ?? or did you switch from
>>> permissive to targeted??? Just to clear
>> 
>> I did a touch /.autorelabel and rebooted. I think it said
>> something about rebuilding the targeted setup and it took quite
>> some time.
>> 
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> 
> I would disable (not permissive) Selinux, boot, then enable again
> and reboot again, in order to have labeling at boot-time. Just a
> shot in the dark (but it is what I did)
> 
> Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 SIP: antoniomontag at ekiga.net 
> Linux Fedora 15 Lovelock


You should not need to do this.  What avc messages are you seeing in
the audit.log?