Fedora 23 Server: can't startx

Braden McDaniel braden at endoframe.com
Wed Mar 30 23:51:59 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 13:21 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 
> On 03/30/2016 12:06 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > I have a fresh, updated install of Fedora 23 Server.  After
> > installation, I installed the "Basic Desktop" group.  Now, when I try to
> > run startx, it fails with the error:
> >
> >          xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
> >
> > Where should I look to diagnose/resolve this?  Could this be related to
> > the fact that my home directories are NFS mounted?  (I have set the
> > use_nfs_home_dirs SELinux setting to "on".)
> >
> What AVC's are you seeing?
> 
> ausearch -m avc -ts recent

None, apparently:

        # ausearch -m avc -ts recent
        <no matches>
        
(I ran startx again just before doing that, just to be sure.)

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Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>



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