No sound after latest updates

[Tom London]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  >  On Rawhide I've been struggling with my sound card working for awhile now...
>  >
>  >  See bugzilla
>  >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433495
>  >
>  >  But today after all the alsa updates, I can't get the machine to put out
>  >  any sound at all.
>  >
>  >  I am running with SELinux enabled and am seeing a few weird SELinux errors
>  >  Source Context:  system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023Target
>  >  Context:  system_u:object_r:alsa_etc_rw_t:s0Target
>  >  Objects:  ./default.conf [ file ]Source:  pulseaudioSource
>  >  Path:  /usr/bin/pulseaudioPort:  <Unknown>Host:  quadSource RPM
>  >  Packages:  pulseaudio-0.9.8-12.fc9Target RPM Packages:  Policy
>  >  RPM:  selinux-policy-3.3.1-22.fc9Selinux Enabled:  TruePolicy
>  >  Type:  targetedMLS Enabled:  TrueEnforcing Mode:  EnforcingPlugin
>  >  Name:  catchall_fileHost Name:  quadPlatform:  Linux quad
>  >  2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 #1 SMP Fri Mar 14 23:14:20 EDT 2008 i686
>  >  i686Alert Count:  12First Seen:  Wed 19 Mar 2008 08:43:41 AM MDT
>  >  Last Seen:  Fri 21 Mar 2008 07:57:17 AM MDTLocal
>  >  ID:  2586d9cc-51ae-4a37-81a7-e6df59f9fb78Line Numbers:  Raw Audit
>  >  Messages :host=quad type=AVC msg=audit(1206107837.491:35): avc: denied {
>  >  read } for pid=2592 comm="pulseaudio" name="default.conf" dev=sda2
>  >  ino=296017 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
>  >  tcontext=system_u:object_r:alsa_etc_rw_t:s0 tclass=file host=quad
>  >  type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1206107837.491:35): arch=40000003 syscall=5
>  >  success=no exit=-13 a0=9b62b38 a1=0 a2=1b6 a3=0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=2592
>  >  auid=4294967295 uid=42 gid=42 euid=42 suid=42 fsuid=42 egid=42 sgid=42
>  >  fsgid=42 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="pulseaudio"
>  >  exe="/usr/bin/pulseaudio" subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
>  >  key=(null)
>  >
>  >
>  >  So I'm gonna try with SELinux disabled...
>  >
>  >  Kevin
>  >  - --
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>  I worked around this by reverting all the pulseaudio packages to -11
>  (today's were -12).
>
>  Don't really understand this, as trying to run -12 packages in
>  permissive mode didn't seem to work for me.
>
I'm sorry, but I was confused.

This has nothing to do reverting to -11.  I must have been in
permissive mode when I did the revert.

Looks like there are a bunch of AVCs generated on hald_acl_t, so
booting in permissive mode does make this work.

Sorry for the misdirection.

tom
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Tom London