xinit issue on vmware x86_64

[Andrew Farris]

Will Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 07:02 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Andrew Farris wrote:
>>> After update of xorg-x11-xinit and a number of other packages today I'm 
>>> seeing X  respawning too quickly and fails to start via gdm.  Things 
>>> seem to be working (albeight very slowly, much more so than normal) when 
>>> I startx as a normal user.
>>>
>>> xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-5.fc9.x86_64
>>>
>>> I'm not sure yet what is responsible just noting what changed.
>>>
>>> I see warnings in Xorg.0.log regarding acpi which I'll post shortly.  
>>> This is running the new kernel today and the previous (2.6.24.1-28 and 
>>> 2.6.24.1-31).
>>>
>> GDM loads, crashes and respawns in a forever loop with the current 
>> version gdm-2.21.7-1.fc9.i386 installed. X starts fine from runlevel 3. 
>> Runlevel 5 is currently ruinlevel 5.
> 
> Pretty sure this is due to the SELinux updates, not xorg-x11-xinit or
> gdm. 
> 
> Try booting with enforcing=0 (or switching back to runlevel 5 after
> running "setenforce 0". Worked for me.
> 
> I mentioned this on the (draft!) rawhide status page: 
> http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/rawhide.html
> 
> -w

Well the issue is gone now so I can't dig deeper, but I'm not really sure it was 
related to selinux that time.  There were no audits other than a denied write to 
resolv.conf.predhclient several times during the service startup.  As of now I'm 
running enforcing with gdm doing fine.

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