Description of problem: I noticed that smolt appears to be creating the directory '.smolt' in /: [tbl@tlondon ~]$ ls -ladZ /.smolt* drwx------. root root system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 /.smolt [tbl@tlondon ~]$ SELinux wants to label this 'default_t'. Probably not right.... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): smolt-1.4.2.2-3.fc15.noarch selinux-policy-3.8.8-14.fc14.noarc How reproducible: Believe every time.... Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I can't find referencing /.smolt anywhere. It does store information in ~/.smolt/ in a couple of ways. I'm wondering if somewhere in the install process if root's home isn't being properly defined.
Hmm... Looks like it was created on 24 December 2009: [root@tlondon ~]# ls -ld /.smolt drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Dec 24 2009 /.smolt [root@tlondon ~]# and [root@tlondon ~]# ls -lu /.smolt/ total 4 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 104 Jan 1 2010 uuiddb.cfg [root@tlondon ~]# "locate" reports no other instances of '.smolt': [root@tlondon ~]# locate .smolt /.smolt /.smolt/uuiddb.cfg [root@tlondon ~]#
When was your /etc/sysconfig/firstboot created?
[root@tlondon ~]# ls -l /etc/sysconfig/firstboot -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 17 Dec 24 2009 /etc/sysconfig/firstboot [root@tlondon ~]#
My system is pretty much constantly updated Rawhide system.
still trying to verify root root cause. You can safely remove that file though and it won't be re-created unless you re-run firstboot (which is non-typical). I checked with a member of the packaging committee and it seems to be a bad idea to automatically move that directory via a package so you and everyone else impacted (probably a lot) will just have to remove that directory manually. I'm working on a patch upstream to try to make sure it doesn't happen again no matter what the conditions of ~ might be.
OK. Just to be clear, if I remove this directory ('/.smolt'), what will happen the next time cron kick starts smolt? Will it create a new uuiddb.cfg in /root/.smolt? Elsewhere? Thanks.
the cron job will actually run as smolt and attempt to create the file (and fail to do so) mostly by design. If you run smolt manually or via the gui, it will recreate the file in that users home dir. The uuiddb.cfg file actually only contains the public uuid file which is used as a reference convenience for smolt for linking and the smolt gui. Your actual hardware uuid (the non public one) is stored in /etc/ and doesn't change.
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