Unable to successfully run some applications in Fedora 9 with MLS enforcing

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 03/17/2009 11:26 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 08:08 -0700, zoroufi wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> After successfully switching to MLS enforcing mode in Fedora 9 I have some
>> troubles when running some applications. After executing these applications
>> they are terminated and no result even no log is generated.
>> For example running the system-config-selinux terminates the application.
>> Would you please help me what should I do in order to overcome this problem?
>> Similar behaviors are estimated when you run any of the followings commands
>> service --status-all
>> system-config-users
>> system-config-display
>> ...
>> Any comments will be appreciated
>> Mohammad
>
> policy-MLS in Fedora 9 is not supported in a GUI i believe. If you want
> to use policy-MLS, use it in runlevel 3 only.
>
> In Fedora 11 (rawhide), MLS might work with the GUI but it is still a
> work in progress.
>
> I am not sure why "service --status-all" would cause issue however. Any
> related AVC denial that is generated might give clues.
>
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Yes if you want to run mls with a desktop you need to run fedora 11. 
And many userhelper tools will not work, including system-config-selinux.