FedoraFAQ.org - commands for install of NVIDIA drivers do not work

[Paul Howarth]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tuesday August 01 2006 8:20 am, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Marc: comments interspersed
>> Just a heads up. If you do want to use the nVidia installer with SELinux
>> enabled, the instructions on the FedoraFaq web site need to be updated.

The changes I suggested on f-s-l were to avoid globally allowing 
execstack/execmod, and limiting this to those objects that actually 
needed it. The approach suggested in fedorafaq works, but could be more 
securely done.

>>   Undo the changes to the booleans:
>>
>> # /usr/sbin/setsebool -P allow_execstack 0
>> # /usr/sbin/setsebool -P allow_execmod 0
>>
> 
> ran these and immediately got a prompt with no messages
> 
>> Then update the file contexts instead:
>>
>> # /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -f -- -t textrel_shlib_t
>> '/usr/lib/libGL(core)?\.so(\.[^/]*)*'
> 
> Running each of the next three produced readout that seemed to indicate errors 
> in syntax - i.e. instructions for proper running of the command:
> 
> /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -f -- -t textrel_shlib_t'/usr/lib/libGL(core)?
> \.so(\.[^/]*)*'
> semanage {login|user|port|interface|fcontext|translation} -l [-n]
> semanage login -{a|d|m} [-sr] login_name
> semanage user -{a|d|m} [-LrRP] selinux_name
> semanage port -{a|d|m} [-tr] [ -p protocol ] port | port_range
> semanage interface -{a|d|m} [-tr] interface_spec
> semanage fcontext -{a|d|m} [-frst] file_spec
> semanage translation -{a|d|m} [-T] level

Space missing between textrel_shlib_t and 
'/usr/lib/libGL(core)?\.so(\.[^/]*)*'

>> # /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -f -- -t textrel_shlib_t
>> '/usr/lib/libnvidia.*\.so(\.[^/]*)*'
> 
> Running this command yielded similar results as just above, and in this case 
> there is no file/directory named "/usr/lib/libnvidia" - the same for the next 
> command
> 
>> # /sbin/restorecon -v /usr/lib/libGL* /usr/lib/libnvidia*
>>
>> In case of line wrapping, each of the three commands above should be on
>> a single line.
>>
>> The above is based upon a discussion with Paul Howarth on the SELinux list
> 
> I'm running the nvidia rpms from Livna - there is a folder 
> called "/usr/lib/nvidia" which has "*.so" files in it; could this be what you 
> mean for the last two commands? That still wouldn't account for the problem 
> with "/usr/lib/libGL", however...

The advice I gave to Mark was based on his use of the nvidia installer 
directly; the file contexts for a properly-packaged RPM like the one 
from livna will be different because the files will be somewhere else 
(and the context fixes might even be done in the RPM itself; I don't know).

Paul.