After I booted my FC11 test system and did an update, I tried to shutdown and got this failure. I clicked system->shutdown->shutdown_button and the system hung. An investigation of the log shows that attached behavior.
If I log out and click the shutdown button it works, so it seems to only happen when using the button while logged in.
Running 'shutdown -h' as root also works.
I assume that this is an SElinux behavior, before I BZ it, is it intentional?
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:01:57PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
After I booted my FC11 test system and did an update, I tried to shutdown and got this failure. I clicked system->shutdown->shutdown_button and the system hung. An investigation of the log shows that attached behavior.
If I log out and click the shutdown button it works, so it seems to only happen when using the button while logged in.
Running 'shutdown -h' as root also works.
I assume that this is an SElinux behavior, before I BZ it, is it intentional?
Is there nothing in audit.log related to this?
max wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:01:57PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
After I booted my FC11 test system and did an update, I tried to shutdown and got this failure. I clicked system->shutdown->shutdown_button and the system hung. An investigation of the log shows that attached behavior.
If I log out and click the shutdown button it works, so it seems to only happen when using the button while logged in.
Running 'shutdown -h' as root also works.
I assume that this is an SElinux behavior, before I BZ it, is it intentional?
Is there nothing in audit.log related to this?
The only thing which might be useful is attached. Time fits, and nothing within minutes of that.
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:01 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
After I booted my FC11 test system and did an update, I tried to shutdown and got this failure. I clicked system->shutdown->shutdown_button and the system hung. An investigation of the log shows that attached behavior.
If I log out and click the shutdown button it works, so it seems to only happen when using the button while logged in.
Running 'shutdown -h' as root also works.
I assume that this is an SElinux behavior, before I BZ it, is it intentional?
If the system *is* intentionally configured (whether by default or by customization) to disallow mortal users to shutdown or reboot the system, it should not "hang", but produce a friendly error message informing the user they are not allowed to do that. If it does not do that, it seems like a usability bug which should be reported.
I see that Bug 495326 was closed; after updating and relabeling, are you still experiencing this problem and getting AVC denials? If so, I would open a new bug if there isn't another one already.
It does not sound like a rational default configuration if you are not allowed to reboot the system as a normal user, but to get around that restriction, you simply need to log out. IMO, that would be a separate problem which should also be reported if that's the behavior you are seeing with the default configuration.
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