SELinux blocking something related to camera

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Apr 9 11:15:00 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:49 +0200, Tor Arne Thune wrote:
> Hi.
> I am having some trouble accessing my Canon EOS 10D camera through 
> digikam as non-root. SELinux seems to be blocking something. When I turn 
> the camera on I get these messages in /var/log/messages:
> Apr  9 10:34:43 ranger kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using 
> uhci_hcd and address 2
> Apr  9 10:34:44 ranger kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
> choice
> Apr  9 10:34:44 ranger kernel: audit(1144571684.462:10): avc:  denied  { 
> search } for  pid=21743 comm="cat" name="console" dev=dm-0 ino=1474652 
> scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t:s0 
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:pam_var_console_t:s0 tclass=dir
> Apr  9 10:37:03 ranger kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2
> 
> What should I disable in the SELinux policy to make this work? Any 
> thoughts are greatly appreciated.

FWIW, you're not the only digikam user to experience this:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg01718.html

Paul.




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