On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:20 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > (See my other mail on the subject here: > http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-March/msg00295.html ) > > Something in selinux-policy-2.5.8-4.fc7 (and I think -3 as well) is > denying ldconfig permission to create symlinks in /tmp. mkinitrd uses > ldconfig to set up the symlinks in the initrd it creates (in a temp dir > under /tmp), so then nash won't load (missing ld-linux.so.2), so your > system won't boot. > > Here's the relevant info, triggered when installing a new kernel (which > runs mkinitrd): > > avc: denied { create } for comm="ldconfig" egid=0 euid=0 > exe="/sbin/ldconfig" exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 > name="ld-linux.so.2" pid=4613 scontext=user_u:system_r:ldconfig_t:s0 > sgid=0 subj=user_u:system_r:ldconfig_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=lnk_file > tcontext=user_u:object_r:rpm_script_tmp_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0 We shouldn't allow ldconfig to create files with rpm_script_tmp_t (private temporary file type for rpm scriptlets), so something is wrong here. How is the parent directory created? -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
