Bug 119649
| Summary: | Selinux, unable to login after kernel update (2.6.4~) via yum | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | k l <kilolima> |
| Component: | selinux-doc | Assignee: | Karsten Wade <kwade> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-08-25 21:37:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 118757 | ||
this page explains this issue and a fix. http://people.redhat.com/kwade/selinux/selinux-faq/selinux-faq-en/ "Q:. I installed Fedora Core on a system with an existing /home partition, and now I can't log in. A:. Your /home partition is not labeled correctly. You can fix this by labeling /home correctly /usr/sbin/setfiles /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts /home You will need to have the policy-sources package installed to use setfiles. Alternately, you can use the fixfiles utility to relabel /home without having to install policy-sources. " Basically this is not really a bug, but if I was a new user this would be a major issue. Closing this as NOTABUG. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: After using 'yum update' (from kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 to kernel-2.6.4-1.300) and rebooting, could not login to KDE as normal user or root. Gave an error about being unable to find home directory, not being able to write to /, and that "$test_filehome:ambiguous redirect". Also, on command line, could not 'ls' in /mnt or /lost+found as normal user, gave the flashing red text. And, strangely, as root, did not have permission to save 'inittab' from within nano. Also could not 'touch' in /etc. Saving to another file, removing the original 'inittab', and then renaming new file to 'inittab' worked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.4-1.300 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum update from vanilla test2 system with KDE 2. reboot 3. try to login to KDE Actual Results: kicked back to gdm. Expected Results: able to login Additional info: I was able to circumvent this issue by setting 'SELINUX=disabled' in /etc/sysconfig/selinux. But, since selinux is now disabled, it's not really a permament solution... There must be some other selinux step I'm missing that needs to be run after updating the kernel?