Introduction Email with a plea for help :-(

[Paul Howarth]

Darren Foster wrote:
>>> mplayer: error while loading shared
>>> libraries: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50: connot restore segment prot after
>>> reloc: Permission Denied.
> 
>> This is maybe selinux?  Tail /var/log/audit/audit.log or 
>> /var/log/messages looking for complaints.
> 
> I tried the /var/log/audit/audit.log file but it doesn't exist.
> The /var/log/messages file was most excellent though. It showed as being
> the problem for both flashplayer and Mplayer.  Both appeared in the logs
> as being access denied. I noticed that the SELINUX was set to
> "enforcing" which seemed to block flash and Mplayer from working. I have
> now set it to "permissive" which seems to have done the trick.

If you post the avc denied messages from /var/log/messages we can 
probably find a fix for this that doesn't involve turning off SELinux 
protection for the whole system.

Paul.