Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello:
I just upgraded two of my systems to latest yum update
(2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE) with the hopes that the CD and DVD issues have
been resolved (they have, almost, but thats a separate bugzilla report).
What I am querying about in this email is a message that I am seeing when I
log in as root (yes, I know the caveats and try to respect, but I always
make sure the ability is there if I need it). I log in from the start page
GUI and there are no problems until, after a couple of seconds later, a
pop-up from the "star icon in the upper right" says I got problems. I open
it up and it says:
"SELinux is preventing the gdm-session-wor from using potentially mislabeled
files (/root)."
Okay, that's nice to know, but I have no idea what it is trying to tell me
needs to be fixed. I've got a couple files in the home directory but nothing
looks funny about them (*.txt cut-and-paste of yum update/installs and an
html of "how-to-install f11 from scratch").
I have edited both /etc/pam.d/gdm and /etc/pam.d/gdm-password per Fedora
website instructions to allow root access.
Closer inspection says that I first began getting this message on 20jun09
after a yum update (I did original f11 install at the beginning of June). I
just hadn't noticed it since I don't often log in as root, though I do
remember seeing something in the summer and figuring it was a glip that
would get fixed in future updates).
Any suggestions as to what I should be looking for to get rid of this
message ... if I do indeed actually need to pay attention to it. If there is
more info I can provide, please let me know what it is and how to get it and
I will gladly post such.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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You can try to disable SELinux in /etc/selinux/config or in
/boot/grub/grub.conf.
In /etc/selinux/config, change SELinux to DISABLED.
OR
In /boot/grub/grub.conf, add selinux=0 to the kernel line.
E.g. kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda2 selinux=0
You shouldn't start X server or login to GNOME as root.
My thanks for the prompt reply. I am not certain why I would want to
disable SELinux as it clearly is part of the Fedora package and is
trying to tell me that something isn't right.
Yes, I know I should not start X server or login as root ... and that is
not my normal work habit. But I would expect that I should still be able
to do such and not have SELinux bark unless there was something wrong.
It is the "what is wrong" that I am trying to understand and correct.
Paul
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