Bug 878842

Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/useradd from 'write' accesses on the directory /var/lib.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alexey Torkhov <atorkhov>
Component: smstoolsAssignee: Marek Mahut <mmahut>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Patrick C. F. Ernzer <pcfe>
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Version: 17CC: dominick.grift, dwalsh, fred_weigel, mgrepl, mmahut, pcfe
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Description Alexey Torkhov 2012-11-21 11:29:32 UTC 
Description of problem:
Happens when installing smstools with 'yum install smstools'

Additional info:
libreport version: 2.0.18
kernel:         3.6.6-1.local17.x86_64


Potential duplicate bug: 754883
Comment 1 Alexey Torkhov 2012-11-21 11:29:36 UTC 
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Comment 2 Alexey Torkhov 2012-11-21 11:29:38 UTC 
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Comment 3 Fred Weigel 2013-01-30 18:14:48 UTC 
Updating my Fedora 17 laptop, and installing libdb-devel
During the "Running RPM transaction", this happened


Package: (null)
OS Release: Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
Comment 4 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2013-01-30 21:02:46 UTC 
Fred,

(In reply to comment #3)
> Updating my Fedora 17 laptop, and installing libdb-devel
[...]

It would seem that you were experiencing a bug in a different package. Could you please file one against libdb?
Comment 5 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2013-01-30 21:21:15 UTC 
note: on Bug 853556 I just updated the release from 17 to 18 as I see the bug there as well. That bug also contains a work around which will work on F17 and F18
Comment 6 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2013-05-23 14:42:44 UTC 
please see comment #5
Comment 7 Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2013-05-23 14:45:00 UTC 
not to worry about the selinux problem I do have in smstools that is tracked under 853556