Description of problem: I tried "sudo dnf reinstall snapd" Downloading Packages: snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm 1.6 MB/s | 16 MB 00:09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1.5 MB/s | 16 MB 00:10 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Running scriptlet: snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64 1/1 Reinstalling : snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64 1/2 error: lsetfilecon: (/etc/sysconfig/snapd, system_u:object_r:snappy_config_t:s0) Invalid argument error: Plugin selinux: hook fsm_file_prepare failed Error unpacking rpm package snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64 Verifying : snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64 1/2 Verifying : snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64 2/2 Failed: snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64 snapd-2.42.2-1.fc31.x86_64 Error: Transaction failed SELinux is preventing dnf from using the 'mac_admin' capabilities. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that dnf should have the mac_admin capability by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # ausearch -c 'dnf' --raw | audit2allow -M my-dnf # semodule -X 300 -i my-dnf.pp Additional Information: Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1 023 Target Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1 023 Target Objects Unknown [ capability2 ] Source dnf Source Path dnf Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.14.4-43.fc31.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 31 22:25:12 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2020-01-07 18:30:00 KST Last Seen 2020-01-07 18:30:00 KST Local ID 66308272-d8d0-4489-b059-61bcd92149b5 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1578389400.185:316): avc: denied { mac_admin } for pid=5912 comm="dnf" capability=33 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability2 permissive=0 Hash: dnf,unconfined_t,unconfined_t,capability2,mac_admin Version-Release number of selected component: selinux-policy-3.14.4-43.fc31.noarch Additional info: component: selinux-policy reporter: libreport-2.11.3 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 5.4.7-200.fc31.x86_64 type: libreport Potential duplicate: bug 1557350
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1557275 ***