Latest Seamonkey update
Kostas Sfakiotakis
kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Mon Aug 14 07:38:51 UTC 2006
Greetings Jim,
Jim Cornette wrote:
> Norm wrote:
>> Is it just me or are others having problems with Seamonky after the
>> update yesterday?
>> I had Seamonkey working well in my core 5 installation, since then
>> there seems to be no wy to start and run Seamonkey now. Assuming it
>> was some problem I created I reinstalled core 5 and tried it again the
>> problem still exists.
>>
>
> I have the problem also. The only remedy that I found was to put SELinux
> into permissive mode before launching seamonkey.
Well i have Seamonkey 1.0.4 here ( here is Fedora Core 4 & 2.6.17.8 )
and it works nicely . The SELinux policy here is targeted ( how well
configured targeted is another option , since i have defaults ), so
it might not be SELinux itself that it's causing the problem .
>
> There probably is some SELinux incantation which can be applied to
> seamonkey either at the packaging level or at the passing on of the
> chcon <SELinux incantation>
>
> I had to relabel my system because of some gnome problem where none of
> the icons launchers or applets were displayed when gnome launched with
> early-login as a boot parameter. Seamonkey quit launching without
> putting SELinux into permissive mode before launching the program.
>
> If setting SELinux to permissive mode with setenforce 0 in a root
> terminal performed before launching seamonkey allows seamonkey to
> launch, I'll file a bug report or you can file a report and I'll add my
> "me too" comment to it. Pass on the bug ticket number if you file the
> report.
>
> Jim
>
Kostas
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