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

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I am updating the policy to put this role back in.  Will /usr/sbin/up2date 
> work?

Yes, as long as I become root first.

>
>> 
>> 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

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