Summary: SELinux is preventing updatedb (locate_t) "getattr" to /root/.gconf (unlabeled_t). Detailed Description: SELinux denied access requested by updatedb. /root/.gconf may be a mislabeled. /root/.gconf default SELinux type is gconf_home_t, but its current type is unlabeled_t. Changing this file back to the default type, may fix your problem. File contexts can be assigned to a file in the following ways. * Files created in a directory receive the file context of the parent directory by default. * The SELinux policy might override the default label inherited from the parent directory by specifying a process running in context A which creates a file in a directory labeled B will instead create the file with label C. An example of this would be the dhcp client running with the dhclient_t type and creates a file in the directory /etc. This file would normally receive the etc_t type due to parental inheritance but instead the file is labeled with the net_conf_t type because the SELinux policy specifies this. * Users can change the file context on a file using tools such as chcon, or restorecon. This file could have been mislabeled either by user error, or if an normally confined application was run under the wrong domain. However, this might also indicate a bug in SELinux because the file should not have been labeled with this type. If you believe this is a bug, please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package. Allowing Access: You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the restorecon command. restorecon '/root/.gconf', if this file is a directory, you can recursively restore using restorecon -R '/root/.gconf'. Fix Command: restorecon '/root/.gconf' Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:locate_t:SystemLow Target Context system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:SystemLow Target Objects /root/.gconf [ dir ] Source updatedb Source Path /usr/bin/updatedb Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages mlocate-0.21.1-1 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.5.13-64.fc10 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name restorecon Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 19:03:24 EDT 2009 i686 i686 Alert Count 131 First Seen Wed 28 Jan 2009 06:47:24 AM EST Last Seen Fri 10 Jul 2009 07:23:48 AM EDT Local ID 3edf592a-a79a-4e5c-b86d-c3a2cb3dafe2 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1247225028.385:21): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=8105 comm="updatedb" path="/root/.gconf" dev=dm-0 ino=5570570 scontext=system_u:system_r:locate_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=dir node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1247225028.385:21): arch=40000003 syscall=196 success=no exit=-13 a0=952cd45 a1=bfe65b78 a2=883ff4 a3=952cd45 items=0 ppid=8099 pid=8105 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="updatedb" exe="/usr/bin/updatedb" subj=system_u:system_r:locate_t:s0 key=(null) Hash String generated from selinux-policy-3.5.13-64.fc10,restorecon,updatedb,locate_t,unlabeled_t,dir,getattr audit2allow suggests: #============= locate_t ============== allow locate_t unlabeled_t:dir getattr;
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 538428 ***