Problem after installing selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm

[Matthew Saltzman]

I ran up2date to get selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm. 
up2date hung for a very long time at the end of the installation, so 
finally, I killed it.  At that point, I had two versions of 
selinux-policy-targeted installed.  Verifying each showed that all the 
files were correct for the new version.  But just to be safe (oops), I 
deleted both and tried to reinstall
selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm.

Running up2date now produces:

   # up2date
   Could not set exec context to root:sysadm_r:rpm_t.

and fails to run.  After setenforce 0, I still get the message and up2date 
runs.

Forcing a reinstall of selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.1.noarch.rpm has 
no effect.  Rebooting has no effect.  Relabeling on reboot has no effect.
(Actually, after relabeling, rpm --verify produces

   # rpm --verify selinux-policy-targeted
   S.5....T.   /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs
)

So far, other things appear to work normally, but up2date does not work.

How can I fix this?

Thanks.

Messages in audit.log are:

type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1127508331.874:1624469): user pid=3328 uid=0 
auid=4294967295 msg='PAM authentication: user=root 
exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? 
result=Success)'
type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(1127508331.874:1624478): user pid=3328 uid=0 
auid=4294967295 msg='PAM accounting: user=root exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" 
(hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? result=Success)'
type=USER_START msg=audit(1127508331.884:1626823): user pid=3328 uid=0 
auid=4294967295 msg='PAM session open: user=root 
exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? 
result=Success)'
type=USER_END msg=audit(1127508331.901:1627077): user pid=3328 uid=0 
auid=4294967295 msg='PAM session close: user=root 
exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? 
result=Success)'

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs