[FC3] kernel panic after selinux-policy-targeted update

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jun 29 15:20:11 UTC 2005


Martín Marqués wrote:
> El Mié 29 Jun 2005 10:55, Stephen Smalley escribió:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:41 -0700, Ankit Jain wrote:
>>
>>>i updated the new kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 and new selinux policy. The
>>>only error I am getting is:
>>>audit(1119984375.342:0): avc:  denied  { execmod } for  pid=4185
>>>comm=kdm path=/usr/bin/kdm dev=hda7 ino=49541
>>>scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:bin_t
>>>tclass=file
>>>and because of this I am unable to start the X-server unless I make
>>>enforcing=0 while booting or change /etc/selinux/config.
>>>Is this some problem with KDE? I updated my system to KDE 3.4 from 
> 
> kde-redhat.
> 
>>Are you running the new kernel?  uname -r
>>If not, then see if you still have a problem after booting it.  Other
>>users have reported that they do not encounter such denials with
>>1.35_FC3, only with older kernels.
> 
> 
> Shouldn't the update of selinux-policy-targeted force a kernel update to 
> -1.35_FC3?

It can require a specific version of the kernel to be installed, but 
having it installed isn't the same as running it. In most cases people 
will get both updates at the same time but the selinux update will take 
effect immediately, whilst the kernel update takes effect only after a 
reboot.

Paul.




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