The pointer by Pete toward a more global approach was helpful and led me to run a 'fixfiles check'. This revealed lots of contexts needing restoration, particularly in my home directory. Seems to suggest that running fixfiles is a good preventive measure to perform regularly. It was also suggested to me offline that having restored the proper context for .Xauthority, it was no longer necessary to have a particular local policy in effect for my-sddmhelper. So it could be deleted with 'semodule -r my-sddmhelper'. The origin of the problem seemed to arise from running package updates, but exactly how will remain a mystery. Learned more about the tools and thought processes for understanding SELinux problems. Thanks all. -- Bob _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx