Anyone unable to run specifc applications after recent selinux-policy?

[Steven F. LeBrun]

Mike Cloaked wrote:
>
> Dave Roberts-12 wrote:
>   
>> Hmm... I don't think it's just your problem. I'm having similar issues.
>> After the latest update, Emacs refuses to run in X (runs okay in a term
>> window with "emacs -nw") and Firefox keeps hanging randomly. There
>> doesn't appear to be any error message at all. If I start Emacs from a
>> menu pick or a panel button, it displays the "Starting Emacs Text
>> Editor" application button in the lower panel, but that eventually goes
>> away and no window appears. If I try to start Emacs from a term window
>> ("emacs"), it just hangs forever. Firefox keeps hanging randomly, too.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I am now wondering if this is due to the broken libX11 package 
> libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10.i386 - a number of issues have followed that - and a new
> version (-2) is pushed to testing a few hours back....maybe that will fix
> things?
>   
It does look like version 1.1.5-1 of libX11 is the problem with Emacs 
and other X window programs hanging when they startup.  Downgrading to 
version 1.1.4-5 fixed the problem.  I would have used the previous 
version 1.1.4-6 but found the rpm's for version 1.1.4-5 of libX11 and 
libX11-devel first.

One problem occurred during the downgrade, my laptop would no longer 
boot up.  It would display "GRUB" and hang.  It appears that the MBR 
became corrupted.  This was fixed by reinstalling the Grub stage1 binary 
from my existing /boot/grub partition/directory. 

Directions for reinstalling the Grub stage1 binary to the MBR can be 
found in the Booting from Second Disk 
<http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=431055> thread in the 
Fedora Forums.  In order for follow the directions for reinstalling the 
stage1 binary to the MBR, I booted my system using a Fedora 10 Live CD 
and mounted my /boot partition before running grub manually to perform 
the reinstall.  In my case, "mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3" made my /boot 
partition and /boot/grub/stage1 file available.

-- 
  Steven F. LeBrun

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stories tell children that dragons can be killed."/
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