Description of problem: Upon each reboot an selinux alert similar to this is being issued: ... May 15 05:37:25 columbo setroubleshoot: SELinux prevented kde4-config from writing .kde. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l a4029e06-1fd4-4fc8-8da0-2fc9b1fdc6a9 ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.12-34.fc11.noarch selinux-policy-3.6.12-34.fc11.noarch How reproducible: Always, on one machine. On a different machine, with a very similar set up, I am not observing this. Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot 2. check /var/log/messages Actual results: SEalert being risen. Expected results: No SEalert. Additional info: If I understand correctly, something is trying to run kde4-config during or shortly after bootup as root. AFAICT, kde4-config wants to write to ~/.kde, i.e. to /root/.kde or even /.kde (In the past, some broken kde apps did so). May-be, selinux is preventing it from doing so, may-be kde4-config segfaults. I am not sure.
Created attachment 344072 [details] Output of sealert -l a4029e06-1fd4-4fc8-8da0-2fc9b1fdc6a9
Likely a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489093
Correction: My second FC11 test machine now also exposes this issue: May 15 06:01:38 gunvald setroubleshoot: SELinux prevented kde4-config from writing .kde. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 3f6e9b13-5223-43b6-babe-35a5af18da11
A bewildering observation: My machines have /home and / on separate logical volumes. On one of these, when moving /home down in fstab, this sealert goes away, on the other one, this doesn't help: --- fstab.bak 2009-05-15 07:35:13.000000000 +0200 +++ fstab 2009-05-15 07:35:07.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 / ext3 defaults 1 1 -/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /home ext3 defaults 1 1 UUID=c40d2593-81fc-4f0b-8b81-e1d0bbeb4ceb /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 @@ -7,3 +6,4 @@ proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /opt/fedora/10 ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0 +/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /home ext3 defaults 1 1
copying than reproduced with the following RPMs: selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.12-34.fc11.noarch selinux-policy-3.6.12-34.fc11.noarch kdelibs-4.2.2-12.fc11.x86_64
Yes, this is the same symptoms of the other bug, duping. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 489093 ***