Description of problem: On resume from suspend I get this error: Summary SELinux is preventing /sbin/alsactl (alsa_t) "write" to etc (etc_t). Detailed Description SELinux is preventing /sbin/alsactl (alsa_t) "write" to etc (etc_t). The SELinux type %TARGET_TYPE, is a generic type for all files in the directory and very few processes (SELinux Domains) are allowed to write to this SELinux type. This type of denial usual indicates a mislabeled file. By default a file created in a directory has the gets the context of the parent directory, but SELinux policy has rules about the creation of directories, that say if a process running in one SELinux Domain (D1) creates a file in a directory with a particular SELinux File Context (F1) the file gets a different File Context (F2). The policy usually allows the SELinux Domain (D1) the ability to write or append on (F2). But if for some reason a file (etc) was created with the wrong context, this domain will be denied. The usual solution to this problem is to reset the file context on the target file, restorecon -v etc. If the file context does not change from etc_t, then this is probably a bug in policy. Please file a http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi against the selinux-policy package. If it does change, you can try your application again to see if it works. The file context could have been mislabeled by editing the file or moving the file from a different directory, if the file keeps getting mislabeled, check the init scripts to see if they are doing something to mislabel the file. Allowing Access You can attempt to fix file context by executing restorecon -v etc The following command will allow this access: restorecon etc Additional Information Source Context system_u:system_r:alsa_t Target Context system_u:object_r:etc_t Target Objects etc [ dir ] Affected RPM Packages alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.5.rc2.fc7 [application]filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc7 [target] Policy RPM selinux-policy-2.6.4-8.fc7 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name plugins.mislabeled_file Host Name renton.jgu Platform Linux renton.jgu 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May [application]filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc7 [target] Policy RPM selinux-policy-2.6.4-8.fc7 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name plugins.mislabeled_file Host Name renton.jgu Platform Linux renton.jgu 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:47:07 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen Sat 02 Jun 2007 07:04:09 PM BST Last Seen Sat 02 Jun 2007 07:04:09 PM BST Local ID 976b3176-a7a1-4e45-844a-44f2f14eee0a Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages avc: denied { write } for comm="alsactl" dev=sda2 egid=0 euid=0 exe="/sbin/alsactl" exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name="etc" pid=3144 scontext=system_u:system_r:alsa_t:s0 sgid=0 subj=system_u:system_r:alsa_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=dir tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0
restorecon -R -v /etc/asound.state should fix.