Problem with label on /

[Adam Huffman]

On 10/01/07, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
> Adam Huffman wrote:
> > Rather unwisely I followed through some advice from setroubleshootd on
> > a new FC6 test system without thinking through the implications.
> >
> > It advised me to run:
> >
> > chcon -R -t xen_image_t /
> >
> > because xend was having some trouble with virtual disk files.
> >
> > This had some interesting consequences, most of which I have been able
> > to fix via relabelling.
> >
> > However, there are still errors being reported for various daemons.  E.g.
> >
> > SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/cupsd (cupsd_t) "search" access to /
> > (xen_image_t).
> >
>
> xen images should be in their own directory.  Not in / or /root.  The
> default directory for xen images is under /var/lib/xen, which would
> solve your problem.  I will take a look at the troubleshoot plugin to
> make fix it up.

Yes, I was only experimenting with different locations because of an
error in virt-install (it was complaining that it couldn't get access
to the virtual disks I was creating).