Can't Configure System Settings Anymore

[Amadeus W. M.]

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.
>>
>>Maybe on other people's systems it works fine, but based on my own
>>experience, without a doubt FC4 is the buggiest release I've ever seen.
>>And, again, I've seen since 5.0 every single day.
>>
>>Other than that it's fine. :)
> 
> 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?
> 
> SELinux seems to need all the details right, but when they aren't, the
> resulting malfunctions are obscure.  Since everyone will never be trained
> to look in the logs each time, I think there should be an SELinux screamer
> widget like the Up2Date one in the Toolbar (though it -- both of them --
> should actually work reliably).  The SELinux one should have an icon for
> denials; clicking on that should show what it just denied (or maybe the
> last few (recent) things denied), with an explanation that the denial might
> be a good thing, or a bad thing, but that in any case it happened, and that
> icon should appear immediately upon a denial.  It should also have icons
> for other situations, such as that a recently installed update requires a
> reboot for proper functioning, or that an SELinux update is available.  In
> general, Up2Date is a good model for behavior, though perhaps not for
> implementation. ;)
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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.