rawhide report: 20051216 changes

[Jim Cornette]

Tom London wrote:

>>I'm not getting any of the kernels installed to boot without adding a
>>selinux=0 to the boot process.  I don't think this is kernel related,
>>but something to do with selinux.  The kernels get to the point where X
>>starts and the cursor appears and then nothing else happens.  Dropping
>>to the vt (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) shows the hardware initialized, and then
>>no further progress.
>>
> 
> There is a problem with today's selinux-policy.
> 
> Revert to the prior one.  Believe it will be fixed in tomorrow's rawhide.
> 
> 

I got past the problem with SELinux by issuing autorelabel at reboot via 
grub. After the relabeling, things seem normal without reverting to an 
earlier policy.

The situation and condition that led up to the problem is described below:

  My system was left running and updating software with one of the two 
scripts referred to earlier for dep problem heavy update times. I locked 
the computer screensaver, then went to work. When I got home, I 
unblanked the screen, but xscreensaver refused to accept my known by me 
password. I pressed ctl-alt-F2 and logged into a terminal, then killed 
xscreensaver as regular user, this brought up the desktop. I was able to 
move items around, but typing anything in an open gnome-terminal did 
absolutely nothing.
Next, I opened a root shell by ctl-alt-F1 and ran 'setenforce 0'
I then killed X with ctl-alt-backspace and gdm failed to load and 
authenticate with the autologin setup for gdm. (I do not use rhgb, so 
there was no lockup caused by permission problems on boot.)

excerpt from secure log: - (I'll add to a bug report the logs with 
greater detail later)
Dec 16 17:16:45 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM [dlerror: 
/lib/security/pam_unix.so: symbol pam_syslog, version 
LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time 
reference]
Dec 16 17:16:45 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM adding faulty 
module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so
Dec 16 17:16:45 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: FAILED LOGIN 3 ON 
DISPLAY ":0.0", FOR "jim"
Dec 16 17:16:58 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM unable to 
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_env.so)
Dec 16 17:16:58 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM [dlerror: 
/lib/security/pam_env.so: symbol pam_syslog, version 
LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time 
reference]
Dec 16 17:16:58 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM adding faulty 
module: /lib/security/pam_env.so
Dec 16 17:16:58 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM unable to 
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so)
Dec 16 17:16:58 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM [dlerror: 
/lib/security/pam_unix.so: symbol pam_syslog, version 
LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time 
reference]
Dec 16 17:16:58 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM adding faulty 
module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so
Dec 16 17:16:58 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: FAILED LOGIN 4 ON 
DISPLAY ":0.0", FOR "jim"
Dec 16 17:17:13 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM unable to 
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_env.so)
Dec 16 17:17:13 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM [dlerror: 
/lib/security/pam_env.so: symbol pam_syslog, version 
LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time 
reference]
Dec 16 17:17:13 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM adding faulty 
module: /lib/security/pam_env.so
Dec 16 17:17:13 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM unable to 
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so)
Dec 16 17:17:13 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM [dlerror: 
/lib/security/pam_unix.so: symbol pam_syslog, version 
LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time 
reference]
Dec 16 17:17:13 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM adding faulty 
module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so
Dec 16 17:17:13 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: FAILED LOGIN 5 ON 
DISPLAY ":0.0", FOR "jim"
Dec 16 17:17:24 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM unable to 
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_env.so)
Dec 16 17:17:24 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM [dlerror: 
/lib/security/pam_env.so: symbol pam_syslog, version 
LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time 
reference]
Dec 16 17:17:24 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM adding faulty 
module: /lib/security/pam_env.so
Dec 16 17:17:24 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM unable to 
dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so)
Dec 16 17:17:24 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM [dlerror: 
/lib/security/pam_unix.so: symbol pam_syslog, version 
LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time 
reference]
Dec 16 17:17:24 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: PAM adding faulty 
module: /lib/security/pam_unix.so
Dec 16 17:17:24 cornette-lt xscreensaver[2701]: FAILED LOGIN 6 ON 
DISPLAY ":0.0", FOR "jim"
Dec 16 17:17:46 cornette-lt login: pam_unix(login:session): session 
opened for user jim by LOGIN(uid=0)

Jim


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