Bug 477923 - Incorrect repair guidance
Summary: Incorrect repair guidance
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: setroubleshoot
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-25 14:40 UTC by John Mellor
Modified: 2009-12-18 07:23 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:23:49 UTC
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setroubleshoot output showing the bad problem correction guidance (2.88 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-25 14:41 UTC, John Mellor
no flags Details

Description John Mellor 2008-12-25 14:40:42 UTC
Description of problem:
Incorrect guidance to correct the problem

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
setroubleshoot-2.0.12-3.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:
unknown, I see it every day while verifying bug 477922

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reproduce bug 477922
2.use setroubleshoot to show the guidance
3.run the suggested repair command
  
Actual results:
# restorecon -v 'inotify' 
restorecon:  stat error on inotify:  No such file or directory

Expected results:
problem correction

Additional info:
libinotify exists in F10, but no inotify utility is present to relabel.

Comment 1 John Mellor 2008-12-25 14:41:51 UTC
Created attachment 327838 [details]
setroubleshoot output showing the bad problem correction guidance

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2008-12-27 12:17:31 UTC
The problem here is that the only information we get is that a sshd is not allowed to read a directory.  The kernel does not give us the full path, so we grab a catchall plugin which is just about useless to the user.  In this case a different plugin match (catchall) would have told you to create a custom policy and submit a bug report would have been a better match.

Perhaps catchall_file should be removed so this could fall through.  We have a another plugin that will check the labeling if the kernel gives us a full path, to see if the label matches the system default.

Now if we could get the kernel to give us complete paths ...

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 07:23:49 UTC
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