-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2011 08:19 AM, Miroslav Grepl wrote: > On 09/13/2011 06:48 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >> My netbook has a rather vanilla installation of F15. >> >> I tried a new desktop. Wireless didn't work (long story, not >> relevant) so I manually ran network manager (didn't help). Then >> I rebooted back to Gnome. >> >> Wired networking seemed to no longer work. Actually, networking >> worked but no domain names could be resolved. >> >> After a lot of ineffective poking about (based on my deep >> understanding of how things worked in the good old days before >> NM), I discovered (with help) the problem. >> >> NM creates a new /etc/resolv.conf.tmp whenever it learns (through >> DHCP or whatever) what the name servers are. On my system, it >> could not manage to replace /etc/resolv.conf. /var/log/messages >> showed: <warn> could not commit DNS changes: (0) Could not >> replace /etc/resolv.conf: permission denied >> >> "ls -l /etc/resolv.conf*" showed nothing scary. But "ls -lZ" >> did. >> >> Something had labeled /etc/resolv.conf >> unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 instead of >> system_u:object_r:net_conf_t:s0 >> >> Fix: "restorecon /etc/resolv.conf" >> >> How the heck is an ordinary user supposed to figure this out? > Could you open a new bug on selinux-policy component and we can > discuss it there. > > Regards, Miroslav There might have been a bug in the installation that labeled the /etc/resolv.conf incorrectly, Now that the label is correct, if it gets mislabeled again we know we have a problem. Running the setroubleshoot problem would have given you a heads up on how to fix. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5vXyIACgkQrlYvE4MpobOzkQCfbZ/xTW1lvjYLf5NVogcgSB8W 8pIAoLX/dxydmG3WCSee2KTR3IEXSbxE =pPPy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
