Bug#618292: SELinux: Failed to open x_contexts mapping in policy
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 00:48:00 -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 06:37:16PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 13:00:21 -0400, Eamon Walsh wrote:
> > > On 03/14/2011 06:04 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > > Hi Eamon,
> > > >
> > > > we received the report below on the debian bug tracker, would you have
> > > > any idea about this?
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 23:13:21 -0400, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The X server is looking for the file
> > > /etc/selinux/$POLICYTYPE/contexts/x_contexts. POLICYTYPE is set in
> > > the /etc/selinux/config file and is usually "targeted."
> > >
> > > That file should be part of Debian's SELinux support as it is included
> > > in the upstream policy.
> > >
> > as far as I can tell the selinux-policy-default package comes with
> > /etc/selinux/default/contexts/x_contexts so I guess that's what should
> > be used (/etc/selinux/config sets SELINUXTYPE=default). Joe, do you
> > have that file? I would expect yes, since downgrading to 1.7 makes X
> > work again.
>
> Hmm, for some reason, I don't have that particular package installed;
> rather, I have the following:
>
> $ dpkg -l selinux-\*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-=====================================-============================-==================================================================================
> ii selinux-basics 0.3.8 SELinux basic support
> un selinux-policy-default <none> (no description available)
> un selinux-policy-dev <none> (no description available)
> un selinux-policy-refpolicy-src <none> (no description available)
> ii selinux-policy-refpolicy-strict 0.0.20080314-1 Strict variant of the SELinux reference policy
> ii selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted 0.0.20080314-1 Targeted variant of the SELinux reference policy
> ii selinux-utils 2.0.96-1 SELinux utility programs
>
> I'll have to check if installing selinux-policy-default fixes my problem,
> but that's a project for another night...
>
Hopefully it did. Closing for now.
Cheers,
Julien
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