Description of problem: After I rebooted my laptop on Jan 19, 2016, cron stopped executing my crontab as it failed to load the user crontab: $ systemctl status crond.service -l ● crond.service - Command Scheduler Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2016-01-22 11:04:49 CET; 1min 44s ago Main PID: 31151 (crond) CGroup: /system.slice/crond.service └─31151 /usr/sbin/crond -n Jan 22 11:04:49 xxxxx.redhat.com systemd[1]: Started Command Scheduler. Jan 22 11:04:49 xxxxx.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Command Scheduler... Jan 22 11:04:49 xxxxx.redhat.com crond[31151]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 81% if used.) Jan 22 11:04:49 xxxxx.redhat.com crond[31151]: (mkosek) Unauthorized SELinux context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 file_context=unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 (/var/spool/cron/mkosek) Jan 22 11:04:49 xxxxx.redhat.com crond[31151]: (mkosek) FAILED (loading cron table) Jan 22 11:04:49 xxxxx.redhat.com crond[31151]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support) Jan 22 11:04:49 xxxxx.redhat.com crond[31151]: (CRON) INFO (@reboot jobs will be run at computer's startup.) $ getsebool cron_userdomain_transition cron_userdomain_transition --> on $ sudo ls -laZ /var/spool/cron/ total 12 drwx------. 2 root root system_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 4096 Jul 13 2015 . drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root system_u:object_r:var_spool_t:s0 4096 Sep 10 10:23 .. -rw-------. 1 mkosek mkosek unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 634 Feb 4 2015 mkosek $ sudo ausearch -m AVC -ts today <no matches> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-3.13.1-158.fc23.noarch cronie-1.5.0-3.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Restart crond 2. 3. Actual results: Fails to load user crontab Expected results: Loads user crontab Additional info: I saw Bug 1052401 and Bug 1063503, but I did not see any useful information helping me continue run in the enforcing mode.
It seems to be duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298192 . The kernel-4.3.3-303.fc23 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-b59fd603be should fix your problem
It the kernel doesn't fix your problem feel free to reopen this bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1298192 ***