NFS broken by recent Fedora 9 update?

David P. Quigley dpquigl at tycho.nsa.gov
Tue Dec 16 16:34:44 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:31 -0500, David P. Quigley wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:57 -0500, David P. Quigley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 20:52 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > "Jerry Amundson" <jamundso at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > In case it was missed, note jkeating's very recent post "Coordination
> > > > of updates and reading of bodhi comments".
> > > 
> > > Yeah, that may explain it.  At first I didn't think it was selinux,
> > > because of the lack of any selinux complaints in my logs.  However,
> > > looking back to the last boot found
> > > 
> > > Dec 14 19:21:46 rh2 rpcbind: setgid to 'rpc' (32) failed: Operation not permitted
> > > Dec 14 19:21:48 rh2 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing rpcbind (rpcbind_t) "setgid" rpcbind_t. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 2e7e0f7b-d206-4999-a02c-91bf0cc9d1e2
> > > 
> > > For anyone who needs a fix right now, I can confirm that reverting
> > > rpcbind to rpcbind-0.1.4-14.fc9 (the latest prior version I could find
> > > on the download servers) makes the NFS and AFP problems go away.
> > > 
> > > 			regards, tom lane
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure if he fix for this is in the SELinux policy package yet but
> > if you don't want to revert your rpcbind package this policy module
> > should be a temporary fix.
> > 
> > policy_module(myrpcbind, 1.0)
> > 
> > require {
> >         type rpcbind_t;
> > }
> > 
> > allow rpcbind_t self:capability setgid;
> > 
> > 
> > 1) Create directory, enter directory, and copy the policy module into
> > myrpcbind.te in that directory.
> > 
> > 2) make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
> > 
> > 3) as root /usr/sbin/semodule -i myrpcbind.pp
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> 
> Supposedly the fix is in updates-testing, so that is another option.
> 
> yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update selinux-policy*
> 
> Dave
> 

correction

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update selinux-policy*




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