Turning selinux back on

[Daniel J Walsh]

Brian Bober wrote:

>To answer my own question, I still got the avc errors during running of the
>fixfiles script even after I had made sure I was using the sysadm_r role by
>doing "newrole -r sysadm_r". Therefore, I must have been already as sysadm_r,
>so something else is going fishy.
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>Two examples of the errors are for /mnt/hdc/dev/null, /mnt/hdd/dev/null, and
>/mnt/hdc/dev/md10. hdc and hdd both contain filesystems (backed up) of older
>distributions. There was another bug caused by this, something to do with drive
>labels messing up mount-by-label logics. Could selinux logics be getting messed
>up too?: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120121
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This is a problem of context, you have device files on a directory that 
is trying to be set to mnt_t.

You do not have to run fixfiles.  The AVC messages are probably being 
caused by other problems that
are not caused by bad file context.  What are the problems you are 
seeing.  Please attach the AVC messages

>I'm just throwing out info hoping something helps hook the problem.
>
>Another strange thing happening I mentioned previously is Gnome things aren't
>working properly (I can't use the keyboard in GUI applications, and sometimes
>the menu stops working), but I'm not sure if its something related (probably isn't).
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