Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 361161
can't restorecon
Last modified: 2014-03-16 23:11:20 EDT
Description of problem: Summary SELinux is preventing the restorecon from using potentially mislabeled files (<Unknown>). Detailed Description SELinux has denied restorecon access to potentially mislabeled file(s) (<Unknown>). This means that SELinux will not allow restorecon to use these files. It is common for users to edit files in their home directory or tmp directories and then move (mv) them to system directories. The problem is that the files end up with the wrong file context which confined applications are not allowed to access. Allowing Access If you want restorecon to access this files, you need to relabel them using restorecon -v <Unknown>. You might want to relabel the entire directory using restorecon -R -v <Unknown>. Additional Information Source Context system_u:system_r:setfiles_t:s0 Target Context root:object_r:sysadm_home_t:s0 Target Objects None [ chr_file ] Affected RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.0.8-42.fc8 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name plugins.home_tmp_bad_labels Host Name nostromo.devel.redhat.com Platform Linux nostromo.devel.redhat.com 2.6.23.1-35.wl.3.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Oct 29 12:41:10 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 25 First Seen Wed 24 Oct 2007 12:02:58 AM EDT Last Seen Wed 31 Oct 2007 09:23:27 PM EDT Local ID de6e7df7-7eaf-4e50-b8e4-360c91b5d132 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages avc: denied { relabelto } for comm=restorecon dev=sda2 name=tty7 pid=6352 scontext=system_u:system_r:setfiles_t:s0 tclass=chr_file tcontext=root:object_r:sysadm_home_t:s0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted-3.0.8-42.fc8
You have a chr_file in your /root directory and the system will not allow you to relabel it. Why do you have a chr_file there?
IIRC, it came out of a tar file, was investigating something unrelated.
So remove it and it is done.