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Nelson Marques <[log in to unmask]>
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Nelson Marques <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:37:30 +0000
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Have you already any solid evidence that it is an upstream bug or you
were just tossing around a lucky guess ?

2011/12/19 Morten Stevens <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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



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