F14, google-chrome won't launch after yum update
lancebaynes87
lancebaynes87 at zoho.com
Sat Oct 1 11:59:39 UTC 2011
google-chrome
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
give this out with root:
semanage fcontext -a -s system_u -t usr_t /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
restorecon -v /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
---- On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:46:59 -0700 Daniel J Walsh wrote ----
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>On 09/30/2011 03:40 PM, jackson byers wrote:
>> Daniel J Walsh replied
>>
>>
>>> This is definitely something in SELinux. The current upstream
>>> google chrome is a little strange from an SELinux point of view.
>>> Have you tried chromium?
>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chromium
>>
>>
>> well, no. Advice on this llist over last year or so is that
>> google-chrome is better.
>>
>> I can always fall back on firefox....
>>
>>
>> At least I know my problem is Selinux. And in this case evidently
>> something that can't be fixed.
>>
>> I would think this will be viewed by many fedora users as a real
>> black mark on Selinux.
>>
>> Unless google-chrome is at fault.
>>
>>
>> More detail on how I was running: from a backup copy of F!4 I had
>> just done a yum update.
>>
>> If I now go back to my main F14 (and dont do the yum update) then
>> google-chrome works as it has been.
>>
>> so it was some glltch in the yum update
>>
>> Jack
>
>My goal is not to get into the blame game, but google-chrome requires
>some strange access that I have never seen an app need before.
>Basically an application chrome-sandbox needing to load the the
>executable (not shared library) chrome which was not compiled with
>PIC. The latest chrome browser from beta release requires mmap_zero,
>which is a very dangerous access that we will not give.
>
>If you do not want SELinux controlling chrome-sandbox you can turn off
>the boolean unconfined_chrome_sandbox_transition
>
>setsebool -P unconfined_chrome_sandbox_transition 0
>
>The link above has a version of chrome, specially built for Fedora
>which should work fine with SELinux.
>
>Some of the problems you are seeing, I believe are fixed in F15 and
>F16. Not sure if the fixes were back ported to F14.
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