Selinux and kernel-2.6.12-1.1381 Fedora Core 3

[Rahul Sundaram]

Antonio Olivares wrote:

>Dear Kind Folks,
>   I recently updated one of my machines at work which
>was running Fedora Core 3 to kernel-2.6.12-1.1381 via
>yum.  When I rebooted and booted to the new kernel, I
>fired up firefox and could not load yahoo webpage.  I
>tried google, Fedorafaq, Distrowatch and nothing.  I
>suspected Selinux could be the culprit, so I did:
>Hat -> System Settings -> Security Level and disabled
>selinux.  Rebooted with new settings and viola I could
>see yahoo, distrowatch, google, etc.  I went to
>terminal fired up yum and yum update selinux and gave
>me error message.  I tried again this time with
>selinux-targetpolicy? (not to sure) but it went
>through.  I reenabled selinux, and rebooted and could
>not view any webpages again.  I will get back to the
>machine on Monday, and it makes me wonder about what
>do I need to do, which updates I need to run.  
>
>kernel installed ->	[kernel-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3.i686]
>
>I read very carefully the FAQ for SELinux from 
>http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm
>but I am still clueless.  I would like to keep selinux
>enabled and still view webpages.  How can I still do
>that?  
>  
>
post to the fedora-selinux list with the AVC denied messages in 
/var/log/messages. Fedora SELinux FAQ is available from

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq/

regards
Rahul