Description of problem: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/systemctl from 'read' accesses on the file utmp. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that systemctl should be allowed read access on the utmp 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 shutdown /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:apmd_t:s0 Target Context system_u:object_r:initrc_var_run_t:s0 Target Objects utmp [ file ] Source shutdown Source Path /usr/bin/systemctl Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages systemd-204-8.fc19.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-54.fc19.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 3.9.6-301.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 17 14:26:26 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 2 First Seen 2013-06-26 23:11:02 CEST Last Seen 2013-06-26 23:11:02 CEST Local ID f215eab2-8079-4753-8639-192d44722424 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1372281062.704:739): avc: denied { read } for pid=18224 comm="shutdown" name="utmp" dev="tmpfs" ino=14666 scontext=system_u:system_r:apmd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_var_run_t:s0 tclass=file type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1372281062.704:739): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=7f45e4ea4de0 a1=80000 a2=7f45e4ea4dd1 a3=7f45e7a840b0 items=0 ppid=18209 pid=18224 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=shutdown exe=/usr/bin/systemctl subj=system_u:system_r:apmd_t:s0 key=(null) Hash: shutdown,apmd_t,initrc_var_run_t,file,read Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.1.5 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 3.9.6-301.fc19.x86_64 type: libreport
491e17b17a0090c311d1a44ab9cc752023671fe0 fixes this in git.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 978909 ***