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Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> kwhiskerz wrote:
>> SELinux is blocking the lircmd remote-controlled mouse from starting.
>
>> I have lirc properly set up and am able to use it to control amarok, kaffeine
>> &c when I start irkick, so I know that the remote is not defective and that
>> the system is reading the signals sent.
>
>> I use the lircm mouse to control programs remotely. I have the mouse defined
>> in xorg.conf and it used to work perfectly in f7 (when I had, in frustration,
>> disabled selinux).
>
>> In f8, I insist on finally using selinux in the default enforcing mode. The
>> problem with lircmd has been persisting since about f3 or f4 and since then,
>> I have had to disable selinux to get it to work. After all of this time,
>> there must be a way for linux software to co-exist with selinux?
>
>> Xorg.0.log excerpt:
>
>> (**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>> (**) LircMouse: Device: "/dev/lircm"
>> (**) LircMouse: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
>> (**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
>> (**) LircMouse: always reports core events
>> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/lircm"
>> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/lircm
>> Permission denied.
>> (EE) LircMouse: cannot open input device
>> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "LircMouse"
>> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
>
>> >From the SELinux troubleshooter:
>
>> SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/Xorg (xdm_xserver_t) "read write" to
>> (device_t).
>
>> Raw Audit Messages:
>
>> avc: denied { read write } for comm=X dev=tmpfs egid=0 euid=0
>> exe=/usr/bin/Xorg exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name=lircm pid=2076
>> scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 sgid=0
>> subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 suid=0 tclass=fifo_file
>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 tty=tty7 uid=0
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> We do not have a mapping for the device. If you
>
> chcon -t mouse_device_t /dev/lircm
>
> It should work.
>
> Did you ever report this as a bugzilla?
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Fixed in selinux-policy-3.0.8-58.fc8
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