NFS statd fails to start

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> [...]
>> Thanks a lot, Stuart. The command
>>
>> restorecon -v /etc/services
>>
>> solved the problem.
>>
>> Can the problem that I reported be considered a bug of Selinux?
>
> No. It is supposed to only allow rpcbind to access files that are
> labelled in a specific way (I don't have a list to hand).
>
> I don't know why /etc/services was labelled this way, but it is clearly
> an error.
>
> If /etc/services was incorrectly labelled it is possible that other
> files are also incorrect.
>
> one way to be fairly certain that your system is correctly labelled is
>
> touch /.autorelabel
>
> If you do this your system will be checked and relabelled on its next boot.

Thanks again, Stuart. I also thank Michael. The re-labeling was meanwhile done.

Paul