Can't Configure System Settings Anymore

[Eric Hines]

Amadeus W. M. wrote:

>>>>Out of curiosity, why would it allow me to configure anything from the
>>>>shell, and the gui tools won't save properly? If I were doing a bad thing,
>>>>I'd be doing it either way. 
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>>Not necessarily. From the command line, you're talking directly to the 
>>files in question.  From the GUI, you're only talking to the GUI and 
>>depending on the GUI to pass along your inputs to _all_ of the relevant 
>>files and then depending on the SAVE button on the GUI to save all of 
>>those files' changes.  GUIs can be simple or complex to write because of 
>>the need for all those callbacks to work correctly.  Almost always, the 
>>GUIs do a fine job, because the GUI writers work very hard to get the 
>>GUIs right.  However, s*t happens, and sometimes (rarely) a GUI will 
>>miss something.
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>
>For a minute I believed you (actually, of course, you're right), but the
>thing is, now after I've disabled selinux, the guis DO seem to work right.
>I'm 90% sure (but not 100%) that the gui wasn't trying to do something
>funny behind the scenes.
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>
Well, that is key.  GUIs that work correctly in some environments and 
poorly in others suffer from one of two things: the GUI was suboptimally 
written and is not robust enough, or the environment changed out from 
under the GUI.  In this case, I'd lean toward a problem with either the 
SELinux, or this version of FC's implementation of it.  And to the 
extent that either of those is true, I'm going to sit down and shut up.  
I know nothing about that.
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