Can't Configure System Settings Anymore

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:09 PM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:27:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> At 12:36 AM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>>On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:43:30 -0700, Rashan Jibowu wrote:
>>  ...
>>>> Can someone please help? How can I get the programs
>>>> under "System Settings" to work again?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I've had similar problems. After fresh installation I think I was able to
>>>configure everything from the gui config tools, then I noticed
>>>system-config-network won't write out the files properly, nor would
>>>system-config-securitylevel. Probably others too. Luckily I've been using
>>>RedHat since 5.0, and I can do all that at the prompt, but I feel sorry
>>>for the new people.
 ...
>> I would hazard a guess that many such issues stem from SELinux.  Have you
>> tried booting with kernel parameter "enforcing=0", and does that help
>> either of you?
 ...
>Excellent! All grief is gone. For now.
>
>I don't understand very well what happened, I had selinux on permissive
>(or whatever most lax security policy it's called). I thought that was
>equivalent to not having selinux at all. Probably my ignorance.

I would suggest making sure that SELinux is up to date, and then touching
/.autorelabel and rebooting (as others have suggested for SELinux problems)
and seeing if that allows SELinux to work properly.
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