Can not access files in own home directory

David Balazic david.balazic at hermes.si
Thu Jun 10 06:38:44 UTC 2004


> From: 	Russell Coker[SMTP:russell at coker.com.au]
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:42, David Balazic <david.balazic at hermes.si> wrote:
> > Because I get a failure right 5 minutes after installation.
> >
> > I did a SELinux enabled install of FC2 ( Workstation type ).
> > In firstboot I created a user.
> 
> This is a known bug, when firstboot creates a user it doesn't give the
> correct 
> type to the home directory files.  Running setfiles is the correct thing
> to 
> do.  But you don't have to label the entire file system, just the home 
> directory for the new user.
> 
setfiles requires some "policy" argument, what do I use ?
Well, I just run "fixfiles relabel" ( not is runlevel 1, as suggested by
Andrew Farris,
but level 5, is that a problem ? ).
Now login on VCx is OK, but login in X still does not work. Previously it
reported that
my home dir does not exist, but now after the "fix" , when I enter my
username and
password an blank blue screen with a mouse pointer ( pointer, not sandwatch
) appears
and nothing happens. I waited 30 seconds and switched to VC1 to check out
what is
happening, but then the screen started to blink. It went black for ~5
seconds, then back
to VC1 for a second , then black again and so on. Maybe the X server was
restarting.

Any clues ?

David Balažic




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