From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040904 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: I have the following set: SELINUX=Enforcing SELINUXTYPE=targeted When I boot, things look good until syslogd is started, then I get messages to the boot screen as follows: audit(1095634287.733:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10192 exe=/sbin/minilogd name=tty2 dev=tmpfs ino=1566 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.733:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10192 exe=/sbin/minilogd path=/dev/null dev=tmpfs ino=974 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.733:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10192 exe=/sbin/minilogd path=/dev/null dev=tmpfs ino=974 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.734:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10192 exe=/sbin/minilogd path=/dev/null dev=tmpfs ino=974 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.734:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=10192 exe=/sbin/minilogd dev=tmpfs ino=972 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=dir audit(1095634287.735:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=10192 exe=/sbin/minilogd dev=tmpfs ino=972 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=dir audit(1095634287.742:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=10192 exe=/sbin/minilogd dev=tmpfs ino=972 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=dir audit(1095634287.754:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10194 exe=/sbin/minilogd name=tty2 dev=tmpfs ino=1566 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.762:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10194 exe=/sbin/minilogd path=/dev/null dev=tmpfs ino=974 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.771:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10194 exe=/sbin/minilogd path=/dev/null dev=tmpfs ino=974 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.779:0): avc: denied { read write } for pid=10194 exe=/sbin/minilogd path=/dev/null dev=tmpfs ino=974 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=chr_file audit(1095634287.787:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=10194 exe=/sbin/minilogd dev=tmpfs ino=972 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=dir audit(1095634287.795:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=10194 exe=/sbin/minilogd dev=tmpfs ino=972 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=dir audit(1095634287.803:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=10194 exe=/sbin/minilogd dev=tmpfs ino=972 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t tclass=dir Also, there is only this in /var/log/messages: Sep 20 11:29:34 indoffcallacctg syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enable selinux 2.boot 3.read messages Actual Results: see discription Expected Results: syslog would work Additional info:
This was caused from using a kernel from Arjan that did not contain the xattr patch. Reverting to 2.6.8-1.541 clear up this problem. Which leaves, I guess, a problem of the xattr patch becoming main stream.