Description of problem: SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/xulrunner/plugin-container from 'unlink' accesses on the file /root/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/settings.sxx. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that plugin-container should be allowed unlink access on the settings.sxx file by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep plugin-containe /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:mozilla_plugin_t:s0-s0:c 0.c1023 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 Target Objects /root/.macromedia/Flash_Player/macromedia.com/supp ort/flashplayer/sys/settings.sxx [ file ] Source plugin-containe Source Path /usr/lib/xulrunner/plugin-container Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages xulrunner-21.0-4.fc17.i686 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.10.0-169.fc17.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 3.8.13-100.fc17.i686 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:51:09 UTC 2013 i686 i686 Alert Count 13 First Seen 2013-06-15 03:59:36 UYT Last Seen 2013-06-15 03:59:37 UYT Local ID 747c5101-eb87-4150-8920-46caedda5117 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1371279577.685:127): avc: denied { unlink } for pid=2127 comm="plugin-containe" name="settings.sxx" dev="dm-1" ino=1048621 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:mozilla_plugin_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1371279577.685:127): arch=i386 syscall=unlink success=no exit=EACCES a0=b4d93180 a1=0 a2=b5f9e688 a3=bfb1f5ac items=0 ppid=2064 pid=2127 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 ses=1 tty=(none) comm=plugin-containe exe=/usr/lib/xulrunner/plugin-container subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:mozilla_plugin_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Hash: plugin-containe,mozilla_plugin_t,admin_home_t,file,unlink audit2allow #============= mozilla_plugin_t ============== allow mozilla_plugin_t admin_home_t:file unlink; audit2allow -R #============= mozilla_plugin_t ============== allow mozilla_plugin_t admin_home_t:file unlink; Additional info: hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 3.8.13-100.fc17.i686 type: libreport
You should never run firefox as root, this is not supported by SELinux. THis is very dangerous.