On 19.12.2011 21:07, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> On 12/19/2011 09:07 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> On Dec 17, 2011, at 14:40 , Morten Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> On 17.12.2011 03:30, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>>> I noticed that all my SL6x systems have updated to the following
>>>> selinux packages overnight:
>>>> selinux-policy           noarch  3.7.19-126.el6 sl6x-security  771 
>>>> k
>>>> selinux-policy-targeted  noarch  3.7.19-126.el6 sl6x-security  2.5 
>>>> M
>>>>
>>>> In the email logs on every system I notice:
>>>> SELinux:  Could not downgrade policy file
>>>> /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24, searching for an older
>>>> version.
>>>> SELinux:  Could not open policy file<=
>>>> /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24:  No such file or directory
>>>> load_policy:  Can't load policy:  No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> As I usually disable SELinux on all my systems, I'm not sure if 
>>>> this
>>>> will have any effect for those who still run with SELinux enabled 
>>>> -
>>>> but it seems strange so I thought I'd report it...
>>> This is an upstream bug... I see this error message on all my 
>>> systems.
>> Hmm... I don't observe this on my systems, whether or not SELinux is 
>> disabled.
>>
>> 	Stephan
>>
> I will echo Stephan's observations on this.  I checked 4 systems (2 -
> i386, 2 - x86_64; one enforcing one disabled for each arch) and I was
> unable to generate the error listed.
>
> Pat

Hi,

That's strange ... I see this error message on every el6 based system.

For example:

[root@x86-014 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)

[root@x86-014 ~]# sestatus
SELinux status:                 disabled

[root@x86-014 ~]# yum update

...

   Updating   : selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-126.el6_2.3.noarch      
99/247
SELinux:  Could not downgrade policy file 
/etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24, searching for an older version.
SELinux:  Could not open policy file <= 
/etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24:  No such file or directory

Best regards,

Morten