Bug 118153

Summary: 'env: /etc/init.d/yum: Permission denied' while upgrading
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Tim Waugh 2004-03-12 16:18:38 UTC
Description of problem:
While upgrading yum to yum-2.0.5.20040310-1 (from previous build), I
got this error:

[root@tornado RPMS]# rpm -Fvh stunnel* tk* yum* yelp* patchutils*
error: failed to stat /var/lib/rpc_pipes: Permission denied
Preparing...               
########################################### [100%]
   1:tk                    
########################################### [ 20%]
   2:stunnel               
########################################### [ 40%]
   3:yum                   
########################################### [ 60%]
env: /etc/init.d/yum: Permission denied
   4:yelp                  
########################################### [ 80%]
   5:patchutils            
########################################### [100%]

dmesg shows:
avc:  denied  { transition } for  pid=3481 exe=/bin/env
path=/etc/rc.d/init.d/yum dev=hdb1 ino=344128
scontext=root:sysadm_r:rpm_script_t tcontext=root:system_r:initrc_t
tclass=process

and audit2allow says:
allow rpm_script_t initrc_t:process { transition };

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.0.5.20040310-1
policy-1.8-11

(I had added 'role sysadm_r types ldconfig_t;' to
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/domains/program/ldconfig.te and 
reloaded policy in order to get package upgrading to work this well.)

How reproducible:
Not sure.

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2004-05-07 04:19:59 UTC
I'm not sure how this is a yum bug.  It sounds more like a policy issue.


Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2004-06-10 01:38:17 UTC
This probably long since fixed. certainly not seen by me.