[fc3] ntpd issue with SELinux and dm

[Russell Coker]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:45, Davide Rossetti 
<davide.rossetti at roma1.infn.it> wrote:
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151262
> >
> >Maybe the above bugzilla has the cause of your problem?  If so then please
> >update it with the information on your CPU type.
>
> I have doubts on it... It's a 2xXeon 2.66GHz GC-HE. I have a second PC,
> 2xXeon 2.4GHz E7501 with same rpms that runs ok.... difference is:
>
> - the buggy one uses LVM:
>  >df
>
> - the second, good one doesn't use LVM:
>  >df

ntpd is not SE Linux aware, so in permissive mode SE Linux will not impact 
it's operation.  You can easily discover whether SE Linux is at fault by 
putting the machine in permissive mode and trying to start ntpd.

LVM is not going to be the issue unless there is kernel memory corruption 
(unlikely).

You describe the two machines as having different types of CPU, that could 
make a difference to exec-shield.  Try configuring exec-shield as described 
in the bugzilla and see if it makes a difference.

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