SELinux denial - F12

[Bill Davidsen]

Kurian Thayil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Installed F12 and did a security update. Now, I get SELinux denial error. 
> SELinux currently in permissive mode.
> 
> Summary:
> 
> SELinux is preventing access to files with the label, file_t.
> 
> Detailed Description:
> 
> SELinux permission checks on files labeled file_t are being denied. file_t is
> the context the SELinux kernel gives to files that do not have a label. This
> indicates a serious labeling problem. No files on an SELinux box should ever be
> labeled file_t. If you have just added a new disk drive to the system you can
> relabel it using the restorecon command. Otherwise you should relabel the 
> entire
> file system.

> Any idea why this happened after the update? What could be done to prevent 
> this. I am quite a newbie in SELinux scenario. Does, restorecon command fix 
> (restorecon /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-greeter)?
> 
See this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549937

May be related, patch and workaround in the bug.

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