Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Michael Hannon wrote:
> 
>> Greetings.  We're having trouble with the rdiff-backup package on i386
>> systems with SL 5.0 installed.
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>>    ImportError: 
>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/_librsync.so:
>>     cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any suggestions about this.  Thanks.
> 
> Typing "cannot restore segment prot after reloc" into google suggests 
> that it is probably selinux related.  Do you have the same selinux setup 
> on the 64-bit system as on the 32-bit ones?  What do you get for:
> 
>   ls -alZ /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/_librsync.so
> 
> it would probably be worth checking all the other files in the package 
> too with something like:
> 
>   rpm -ql rdiff-backup | xargs ls -ldZ
> 
> and see if those match whatever selinux expects for those object types.
> 
> Does running restorecon help at all?  Does disabling (or

Hi, Jon.  Well. THAT was dumb.  On my part, that is.  You are absolutely 
correct: setting selinux to "Permissive" mode makes the error go away. 
Thanks.

					- Mike
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