I reported this before, but got no response - perhaps because I bundled several issues into one posting? If so, here is a separate posting. It appears that SeLinux examines all mounted filesystem but in this case, SeLinux sees other Fedora versions and starts to complain when it is not related to the current running OS that is running. As you can see below, and running F12, it complains about F11 (and in several places in the mounted F11 filesystem). Many other complaints are similar for mounted Fedora versions BELOW the current running OS (F12), such as F11, 10, 9, 8, ... How does one get around this issue? ============================================= Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/updatedb "getattr" access to /md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network. Detailed Description: SELinux denied access requested by updatedb. /md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network may be a mislabeled. /md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network default SELinux type is default_t, but its current type is unlabeled_t. Changing this file back to the default type, may fix your problem. File contexts can be assigned to a file in the following ways. * Files created in a directory receive the file context of the parent directory by default. * The SELinux policy might override the default label inherited from the parent directory by specifying a process running in context A which creates a file in a directory labeled B will instead create the file with label C. An example of this would be the dhcp client running with the dhclient_t type and creating a file in the directory /etc. This file would normally receive the etc_t type due to parental inheritance but instead the file is labeled with the net_conf_t type because the SELinux policy specifies this. * Users can change the file context on a file using tools such as chcon, or restorecon. This file could have been mislabeled either by user error, or if an normally confined application was run under the wrong domain. However, this might also indicate a bug in SELinux because the file should not have been labeled with this type. If you believe this is a bug, please file a bug report against this package. Allowing Access: You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the restorecon command. restorecon '/md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network', if this file is a directory, you can recursively restore using restorecon -R '/md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network'. Fix Command: /sbin/restorecon '/md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network' Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:locate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 Target Objects /md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network [ dir ] Source updatedb Source Path /usr/bin/updatedb Port <Unknown> Host gold.cdkkt.com Source RPM Packages mlocate-0.22.2-1.fc12 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.32-92.fc12 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name restorecon Host Name gold.cdkkt.com Platform Linux gold.cdkkt.com 2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 19:26:06 UTC 2010 i686 i686 Alert Count 4 First Seen Tue 02 Mar 2010 03:14:22 AM PST Last Seen Fri 05 Mar 2010 03:15:44 AM PST Local ID 98ffff35-e41b-4d4e-b3d3-d286a4916baf Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=gold.cdkkt.com type=AVC msg=audit(1267787744.981:42770): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=15175 comm="updatedb" path="/md/RF11D1/etc/poker-network" dev=sda10 ino=413 scontext=system_u:system_r:locate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=dir node=gold.cdkkt.com type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1267787744.981:42770): arch=40000003 syscall=196 success=no exit=-13 a0=a02bea9 a1=bfb343b0 a2=4c5ff4 a3=a02bea9 items=0 ppid=15169 pid=15175 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=246 comm="updatedb" exe="/usr/bin/updatedb" subj=system_u:system_r:locate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux