trying to run selinux administration produces nothing

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Apr 13 11:40:58 UTC 2009


On 04/12/2009 12:47 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    earlier this morning, i tried to configure selinux via:
>
>    System ->
>      Admin ->
>        SELinux Management
>
> was prompted for the root password, then ... nothing.  i tried again,
> and the next time, i didn't even get the root password dialog.  some
> messages that showed up on the first few attempts of trying but didn't
> show up on later attempts:
>
>    setroubleshootd[####] general protection ip:7f024265790d ...
>
> i can see two bugzilla reports apparently related to this:
>
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493760
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493766
>
> but those reports seem to suggest that this issue has been resolved in
> rawhide, although i have a fully-updated f11 beta system.  thoughts?
>
> rday
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setroubleshootd is not SELinux management.  SELinux Management is 
system-config-selinux and should be fixed in

policycoreutils-2.0.62-9.fc11

Which should be in todays rawhide.

setroubleshoot crashing seems to be triggered by changes in either 
GNOME/GTK or python and we are looking into it.




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