install of kernel 2.6.4-1.298-rpm does not work - SElinux?

Götz Reinicke goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de
Wed Mar 31 15:02:18 UTC 2004


Thanks, I see, there is something new to get familiar with: SELinux :-) 
I'll have a look at the FAQ and wait for the bugfix ;-)

Thanks!

Regards

Götz

James Morris wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Götz Reinicke wrote:
> 
> 
>>Today I downloaded the kernel-2.6.4-1.298-rpm an did an rpm -ivh - that 
>>failed:
>>
>>[root at dilbert root]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.4-1.298.i686.rpm
>>Preparing...                ########################################### 
>>[100%]
>>Fehler: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context
>>"root:staff_r:s taff_t": Das Argument ist ungültig
>>Fehler: %pre(kernel-2.6.4-1.298) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
>>Fehler:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping kernel-2.6.4-1.298
>>
>>
>>setexeccon concernes selinux, but but whats wrong...?
> 
> 
> This should normally work, but there's a bug in the current policy.  You 
> need to be sysadm_r for this to work at the moment, e.g.:
> 
> # newrole -r sysadm_r
> 
> A new policy should be available in rawhide soon (1.9.1-4) which fixes 
> this.
> 
> 
> - James

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