lost most gdm features/functions after today's update...

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 07:40 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday 07 July 2006 01:34, Clifford Snow wrote:
> > Localhost kernel: audit(1152216505.513:285): avc: denied {execmem } for
> > pid=2408 com="metacity" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0
> > tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
> >
> > Is this an error of metacity or a problem with selinux?
> 
> This would appear to be a problem with metacity (or one of the libraries it 
> links with). Programs that are securely written do not need execmem. The 
> question is why did this pop up yesterday? Looking through the rawhide 
> reports, I don't see metacity being updated this week. I suspect its caused 
> by a library that links with metacity.

It's libGL (as becomes obvious when you go to launch metacity from a
terminal :-)

This was being looked at yesterday afternoon by some of the X guys

Jeremy