hald problems? hald-addon-hid-ups apcupsd selnux

[John Bray]

for some time i've been noticing that somehow the system just seems a
bit sluggish.  one of those kinds of things that you can't quite put
your finger on, but they keep bothering you.

so. i've been watching top for a while, trying to see if there is
something that perhaps looks a bit unusual.

i notice that there is an instance of something called
hald-addon-hid-ups which is eating up about 15% of the cpu ALL the time.
on an athlog 2200+ cpu.

if i stop the apcupsd service, this process disappears completely from
the top list (about 20 procs visible).

so.  it seems that it's related to apcupsd talking to the apc ups.

at the moment i'm running selinux in permissive mode.  but, i notice
some entries from the audit log which are seemingly related:

Aug 17 01:39:08 junior dbus: avc:  denied  { send_msg } for
msgtype=error error_name=org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty dest=:1.14
spid=4924 tpid=8091 scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t
tcontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_config_t tclass=dbus
Aug 17 01:39:11 junior dbus: avc:  denied  { send_msg } for
msgtype=signal interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager
member=DeviceRemoved dest=org.freedesktop.DBus spid=4924 tpid=8091
scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t
tcontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_config_t tclass=dbus
Aug 17 01:39:11 junior dbus: avc:  denied  { send_msg } for
msgtype=signal interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager
member=DeviceRemoved dest=org.freedesktop.DBus spid=4924 tpid=8091
scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t
tcontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_config_t tclass=dbus
Aug 17 01:39:11 junior dbus: avc:  denied  { send_msg } for
msgtype=signal interface=org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager
member=DeviceRemoved dest=org.freedesktop.DBus spid=4924 tpid=8091
scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t
tcontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_config_t tclass=dbus


i'm looking for some suggestions, thoughts, advice, help about this.

john