Description of problem: crond refuses to load any user's crontabs from /var/spool/cron directory, and complains about the SELinux contexts. Feb 09 20:33:33 saurok systemd[1]: Starting Command Scheduler... Feb 09 20:33:33 saurok crond[30971]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 64% if used.) Feb 09 20:33:33 saurok crond[30971]: (mirror) 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/mirror) Feb 09 20:33:33 saurok crond[30971]: (mirror) FAILED (loading cron table) Feb 09 20:33:33 saurok crond[30971]: (root) 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/root) Feb 09 20:33:33 saurok crond[30971]: (root) FAILED (loading cron table) crond seems to be running with the right context: # ps axZ | grep crond system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 334 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -n The files themselves seem to have the right contexts: # ls -aZ /var/spool/cron system_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 . system_u:object_r:var_spool_t:s0 .. unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 mirror unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 root Attempting to use restorecon had no effect: # restorecon -r -v /var/spool/cron restorecon: Warning no default label for /var/spool/cron/mirror restorecon: Warning no default label for /var/spool/cron/root No AVCs were logged. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cronie-1.5.0-3.fc23.x86_64 selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-158.4.fc23.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. crontab -e 2. systemctl restart crond Actual results: cron jobs fail to run; journal entries complain about Unauthorized SELinux context. Expected results: cron jobs run normally. Additional info: This appears to have begun immediately after upgrading from F22 to F23 a couple of weeks ago. No user cron jobs have run since the upgrade took place; only jobs in /etc/cron.* are being run.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1298192 ***