Summary: SELinux is preventing dolphin from making the program stack executable. Detailed Description: [SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied but was permitted due to permissive mode.] The dolphin application attempted to make its stack executable. This is a potential security problem. This should never ever be necessary. Stack memory is not executable on most OSes these days and this will not change. Executable stack memory is one of the biggest security problems. An execstack error might in fact be most likely raised by malicious code. Applications are sometimes coded incorrectly and request this permission. The SELinux Memory Protection Tests (http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html) web page explains how to remove this requirement. If dolphin does not work and you need it to work, you can configure SELinux temporarily to allow this access until the application is fixed. Please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package. Allowing Access: Sometimes a library is accidentally marked with the execstack flag, if you find a library with this flag you can clear it with the execstack -c LIBRARY_PATH. Then retry your application. If the app continues to not work, you can turn the flag back on with execstack -s LIBRARY_PATH. Otherwise, if you trust dolphin to run correctly, you can change the context of the executable to unconfined_execmem_exec_t. "chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t '/usr/bin/dolphin'" You must also change the default file context files on the system in order to preserve them even on a full relabel. "semanage fcontext -a -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t '/usr/bin/dolphin'" The following command will allow this access: chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t '/usr/bin/dolphin' 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 None [ process ] Source ksmserver Source Path /usr/bin/ksmserver Port <Unknown> Host localhost.localdomain Source RPM Packages kdebase-4.0.1-3.fc9 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.2.6-6.fc9 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Permissive Plugin Name allow_execstack Host Name localhost.localdomain Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.24-17.fc9 #1 SMP Mon Feb 4 18:35:53 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 5 First Seen Thu 07 Feb 2008 01:26:32 AM EET Last Seen Thu 07 Feb 2008 02:39:06 AM EET Local ID 3da04e6f-259f-41b0-a4a9-8bf090c9348b Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages host=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1202344746.662:44): avc: denied { execstack } for pid=3499 comm="dolphin" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process host=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1202344746.662:44): avc: denied { execmem } for pid=3499 comm="dolphin" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process host=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1202344746.662:44): arch=c000003e syscall=10 success=yes exit=0 a0=7fffd92fb000 a1=1000 a2=1000007 a3=2aaaaacca000 items=0 ppid=2911 pid=3499 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=(none) comm="dolphin" exe="/usr/bin/dolphin" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
Hmmm, where is that execstack request now coming from? Dolphin itself doesn't have the execstack bit set, and I have fixed the only library I could find which had it (qimageblitz). I'd be grateful if someone could find the library which was the execstack bit set. Is your qimageblitz up to date (>= 0.0.4-0.3.svn706674.fc9)?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 428036 ***