On 07/09/2012 09:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Todd And Margo Chester > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> The both of you called it. It did not know I got >> updated in the background. I should have been suspicious >> when my stink' flash-plugin mysteriously got updated. >> Larry's pointing me to /var/log/yum.log was a >> light bulb moment. >> >> The following fixed my problem: >> >> # yum downgrade libvirt libvirt-client libvirt-python >> Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit, security >> Setting up Downgrade Process >> 18 packages excluded due to repository priority protections > > You might also consider disabling SELinux, if the machine is behind > reasonable firewalls. SELinux has been a *disaster* in system > security, costing far more wasted productivity and engineering > resources than many of active worms or attack vectors of the Linux > world, most of which it does not really help with. (Bad PHP is bad > PHP, and SELinux does not necessarily help at all.) > You called that. I had to turn selinux off ages ago as it foo bars Samba. Selinux is a good idea that never made it to the practical phase. And, I wrote/configured my own firewall: all things are illegal, except those things that are legal. It is really nasty. You want in or out, you have to have a rule. Even troubleshoots your network setup (won't work unless it sees what it wants). -T