ps not showing contexts?

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Wart wrote:
> Wart wrote:
> [...]
>> Still no luck.  I restored the machine to a previously working state, and
>> then upgraded both procps and *selinux*.  Immediately after the
>> upgrade ps
>> stopped showing contexts again.
>>
>> [...] Updated: libselinux.i386 0:2.0.31-2.fc8 libselinux-python.i386
>> 0:2.0.31-2.fc8 selinux-policy.noarch 0:3.0.6-3.fc8
>> selinux-policy-devel.noarch 0:3.0.6-3.fc8
>> selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:3.0.6-3.fc8 Dependency Updated:
>> libsemanage.i386 0:2.0.4-1.fc8
>> libsepol.i386 0:2.0.7-1.fc8 policycoreutils.i386 0:2.0.25-2.fc8
>> policycoreutils-gui.i386 0:2.0.25-2.fc8 Complete! [root at localhost ~]# ps
>> auwxZ | head LABEL                           USER       PID %CPU %MEM
>> VSZ   RSS TTY  STAT START   TIME COMMAND -
>> root         1  0.0  0.1   2108   624 ? Ss   02:30   0:02 init [5] -
>> root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [kthreadd] -
>> root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [migration/0] -
>> root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] -
>> root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [watchdog/0] -
>> root         6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [events/0] -
>> root         7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [khelper] -
>> root        58  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [kblockd/0] -
>> root        61  0.0  0.0      0     0 ? S<   02:30   0:00 [kacpid]
>> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -q selinux-policy selinux-policy-3.0.6-3.fc8
>> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -q procps procps-3.2.7-15.1.fc8
>>
>> When I get some time I'll start with a fresh F-7 install and then upgrade
>> to rawhide.  Maybe some intermediate update broke things beyond repair.
> 
> I think I found the problem.
> 
> 'ps' tries to find and open 'libselinux.so'.  At some point this library
> was
> moved from libselinux to libselinux-devel.  Since I didn't have
> libselinux-devel installed, ps failed to load the library and find the
> selinux
> context information.
> 
> Installing libselinux-devel fixes the problem.
> 
> I see three possible ways to fix this:
> 
> 1) Move libselinux.so back to libselinux
> 2) Add 'Requires: libselinux-devel' to procps
> 3) Fix ps to load libselinux.so.1 instead of the unversioned .so file.
> 
> --Wart
I will move it back to libselinux package.
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