VMware Workstation in FC5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Tom London wrote:

> On 4/3/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> Running vmware workstation in FC5 with selinux-policy-targeted-2.2.25-2.fc5
>> produces the error:
>>
>>         $ vmware
>>         /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries:
>>         /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot
>>         restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
>>
>> and the AVC:
>>
>>         Apr  3 09:38:05 kernel: audit(1144071485.547:433): avc:  denied
>>         { execmod } for  pid=21419 comm="vmware" name="libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0"
>>         dev=dm-0 ino=1343530 scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0
>>         tcontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 tclass=file
>>
>> --
>>                 Matthew Saltzman
>>
> Try
>    chcon -t textrel_shlib_t
> /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so,0/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0

Thanks, that did it.  Is this something that can go in 
selinux-policy-targeted, or is it something that VMware needs to take care 
of?

>
> tom
> --
> Tom London
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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