Description of problem: MAKEDEV tries to apply a security context to files it creates. This produces an error message at boottime (MAKEDEV called by /sbin/start_udev) if selinux is disabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): MAKEDEV-3.11-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install latest MAKEDEV 2. Disable SElinux (/etc/selinux/config) 3. Reboot Actual results: Error messages because security contexts can not be applied Expected results: No security contexts if selinux disabled Additional info:
Also seen here: rawhide-20040905 boot starts with MAKEDEV: /dev/fd0: unable to reset file creation context MAKEDEV: /dev/fd1: unable to reset file creation context MAKEDEV: /dev/fd2: unable to reset file creation context MAKEDEV: /dev/fd3: unable to reset file creation context MAKEDEV: /dev/fd4: unable to reset file creation context ... ... continued for a couple of pages on a system with SELinux disabled. The error should be supressed if SELinux is not active.
*** Bug 132103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***