Not good

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Sat Apr 3 05:46:03 UTC 2004


Gene Czarcinski wrote:

>OK, I updated with todays round of updates ... at least with respect to 
>selinux.  This includes the kernel, policy, policy-sources, and 
>policycoreutils.
>
>I then rebooted and ran "make reload" and "make relabel".  They seemed to 
>complete OK.  However, I cannot login from gdm as root (!), a regular user, 
>or a user with a sysadm role defined ... I get an indication that the home 
>directory could not be found (including for root).
>
>BTW, what are the "right" circumstances for running "make relabel"?  I have 
>sometimes gotten an error saying it could not handle "/dev/tty1".  Should I 
>plan to do this from single-user-mode?
>
>  
>
First off you should never have to do a relabel,  Or only under extreme 
circumstances.
The problem here was the movement of the .Xauthority file out to /tmp. 
The new policy should fix your problem. 

Dan

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