/var/lib/gdm oddness.
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Mar 12 20:35:36 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:17:41PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:10 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Anyone know whats up with the permissions on /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs ?
> > On upgrade of certain packages, I'm seeing the error..
> > cannot access /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs: Permission denied
> >
> > ls -l of that shows..
> >
> > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs/
> >
> > My initial thought was 'eek, filesystem corruption'.
> > Rebooting and running fsck picks up nothing.
> > And in fact, when in runlevel 1, the permissions look sane.
>
> GNU coreutils ls will show that if it can readdir() but not stat().
> Normally stat() cannot fail (libc manual only shows ENOENT), but with
> SELinux it can fail with EACCES. So my guess is that SELinux policy is
> denying access to that file.
Due to yesterdays policy breakage, this is still running with enforcing=0
so selinux shouldn't come into it.
Dave
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