Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 181522
gnome-power-manager crashes because of selinux
Last modified: 2013-03-13 00:49:56 EDT
Description of problem: gnome-power-manager crashes on startup (logging in to Gnome session). SELinux policy seems to be preventing it from interfacing with DBus. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-power-manager-2.13.5.0 20060207-2 dbus-x11-0.60-7.2 libselinux-1.29.7-1.2 selinux-policy-2.2.14-2 How reproducible: Enable SELinux in installer (fc5t2), log in to Gnome. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC5T2 with SELinux enabled 2. Upgrade to Rawhide 3. Log in to Gnome Actual results: Error message indicating gnome-power-manager has crashed. Expected results: Power manager applet starts and runs in Gnome panel. Additional info: This has been a persistent problem from a clean install of FC5T2 all the way up to the most recent Rawhide updates. When trying to start gnome-power-manager from a terminal, this message prints out: ** (gnome-power-manager:2347):WARNING **: main: an SELinux policy prevents this sender from sending this message... (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.DBus" member "Hello" error name "(unset") destination "org.freedeesktop.DBus") And in /var/log/audit/audit.log, this message: type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1139940939.476:4123): user pid=1528 uid=81 auid=4294967295 msg='avc: denied { send_msg } for msgtype=method_call interface=org.freedesktop.DBus member=Hello dest=org.freedesktop.DBus spid=2994 scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t tcontext=system_u:system_r:initrc_t tclass=dbus : exe="?" (sauid=81, hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=?)' I have never used SELinux before. I simply left it enabled in the FC5T2 installer and have not changed any of the configuration since.
Switching SELinux to Permissive mode allows gnome-power-manager (and NetworkManager applet also) to load correctly.
Update tomorrow and reboot. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181489 ***