VMware Server blocked but no AVCs

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:33:03 +0000
Arthur Dent <selinux.list at troodos.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I use VMware Server on my F9 box for running other OSs in a
> virtualised environment. 
> 
> I used to use the VMware-server-1.0.* range, but recently upgraded to
> VMware-server-2.0.0. This version has a strange web interface rather
> than operating as an individual application as before. The interface
> loads and presents a log-on screen.
> 
> It fails here with any attempt to log in to the server met with the
> error:
> "The server is not responding. Please check that the server is running
> and accepting connections."
> 
> The strange thing is:
> There are *NO* AVCs
> It does NOT work in permissive mode
> It DOES work when selinux is *disabled*
> 
> It also causes the system to hang when shutting down the PC.
> 
> Does anyone know of a workaround or fix, or do I need to revert to v.
> 1.0.7 ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Mark

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464899

The pam_permit workaround works for me but you might not like it given
that it disables all auth.

Paul.