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.