Digital camera problem
Aad Rijnberg
Aad.Rijnberg at zonnet.nl
Fri Apr 7 16:21:11 UTC 2006
On Friday 07 April 2006 14:48, Gerry Tool wrote:
> Aad Rijnberg wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > since a week I have installed FC5; everything works OK, but today I was
> > trying to upload some pictures on my digital camera via USB to the PC and
> > the connection could not be established. I suspect SELinux.
> >
> > I use Digikam for photo management, and did auto detection of the camera
> > which succeeded to make the proper selection (Canon PowerShot 510 (normal
> > mode) ). This means that it can connect to the camera somehow. When I
> > then selected the camera (via Camera->Canon PowerShot 510 (normal mode))
> > to get a window with thumbnails it came up with a message :
> > "Failed to connect to camera. Please make sure its connected properly and
> > turned on. Would you like to try again?"
> >
> > I looked in /var/log/messages, and came across the following line:
> > Apr 7 13:25:47 localhost kernel: audit(1144409147.815:368): avc: denied
> > { search } for pid=2897 comm="cat" name="console" dev=dm-4 ino=393220
> > scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t:s0
> > tcontext=system_u:object_r:pam_var_console_t:s0 tclass=dir
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Aad
>
> Have you tried to use System > Administration > Security Level and
> Firewall to set SELinux permissive?
I disabled it but initially it did not make a difference. After I rebooted, I
tried again, and then I could connect to the camera again. So this more or
less proves that it was due to SELinux settings.
I would like to use SELinux in Enforcing mode, and find a solution to the
problem. Does anybody have a clue on how to pursue?
Aad
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