On 19 December 2011 20:34, Morten Stevens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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

Not seen / experienced on a RHEL 6.2 system --

[quote]
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ uname -r
2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
Kernel \r on an \m

[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ rpm -qa redhat-release\*
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.2.0.3.el6.x86_64
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ rpm -qa \*selinux\*
selinux-policy-3.7.19-126.el6_2.3.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-126.el6_2.3.noarch
libselinux-utils-2.0.94-5.2.el6.x86_64
libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.x86_64
libselinux-python-2.0.94-5.2.el6.x86_64
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
Current mode:                   enforcing
Mode from config file:          enforcing
Policy version:                 24
Policy from config file:        targeted
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$
[/quote]

Alan.