Re: Problems with kdm in F10 (solved - SELinux issues)

2008-12-02 Thread Daniel J Walsh
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Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
 Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Rex Dieter escreveu:
 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
 Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escreveu:
 People,

 I've just installed F10 and have fully updated the system.
 When I replace gdm with kdm, I can only log in to KDE using the
 root account. When I try to log in using a regular user account, I
 get the following error message:
 Cannot enter home directory. Using /.
 When I click ok, I get this other one:
 Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation.

 If I revert to gdm, everything is fine again. What may be causing
 this problem?

 Also, user photos are not shown in kdm. The default image is
 displayed for every user, despite they all have their photos
 configured since before F10 was installed. I did a fresh install
 of F10 (didn't upgrade from F9), but the /home file system was not
 modified. The user photos still appear in Kickoff. KDM was
 configured with System Configuration to show preferentially the
 user photos and use the default image only if users have not
 provided their own photos. Why aren't the user photos displayed in
 kdm?
 Both problems were solved when SELinux was disabled. Now I'm
 counting 5 weird problems solved by disabling SELinux.
 That's not really a solution, just a workaround.
 
 Indeed, but that's the only way I could find to make it work.
 
 Odd, I can't reproduce either problem with SELinux enabled.  I'd
 venture it's either a geniuine selinux issue (mislabelling) or a
 local configuration, or some combination of the 2.
 
 It's possible, I've been using this home directories since FC3. Maybe 
 there's some old garbage in the users dirs that is causing the problem.
 
 Does setroubleshoot highlight anything out of the ordinary?
 
 I didn't get any warning. But would it function at the kdm login screen? 
 Don't I have to be already logged in to get setroubleshoot warnings?
 
 []'s
 Marcelo
 
Try running

restorecon -R -v /home

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Re: Problems with kdm in F10 (solved - SELinux issues)

2008-12-01 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Rex Dieter escreveu:
 Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
  Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escreveu:
  People,
 
  I've just installed F10 and have fully updated the system.
  When I replace gdm with kdm, I can only log in to KDE using the
  root account. When I try to log in using a regular user account, I
  get the following error message:
  Cannot enter home directory. Using /.
  When I click ok, I get this other one:
  Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation.
 
  If I revert to gdm, everything is fine again. What may be causing
  this problem?
 
  Also, user photos are not shown in kdm. The default image is
  displayed for every user, despite they all have their photos
  configured since before F10 was installed. I did a fresh install
  of F10 (didn't upgrade from F9), but the /home file system was not
  modified. The user photos still appear in Kickoff. KDM was
  configured with System Configuration to show preferentially the
  user photos and use the default image only if users have not
  provided their own photos. Why aren't the user photos displayed in
  kdm?
 
  Both problems were solved when SELinux was disabled. Now I'm
  counting 5 weird problems solved by disabling SELinux.

 That's not really a solution, just a workaround.

Indeed, but that's the only way I could find to make it work.

 Odd, I can't reproduce either problem with SELinux enabled.  I'd
 venture it's either a geniuine selinux issue (mislabelling) or a
 local configuration, or some combination of the 2.

It's possible, I've been using this home directories since FC3. Maybe 
there's some old garbage in the users dirs that is causing the problem.

 Does setroubleshoot highlight anything out of the ordinary?

I didn't get any warning. But would it function at the kdm login screen? 
Don't I have to be already logged in to get setroubleshoot warnings?

[]'s
Marcelo

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Re: Problems with kdm in F10 (solved - SELinux issues)

2008-11-30 Thread Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escreveu:
 People,

 I've just installed F10 and have fully updated the system.
 When I replace gdm with kdm, I can only log in to KDE using the root
 account. When I try to log in using a regular user account, I get the
 following error message:
 Cannot enter home directory. Using /.
 When I click ok, I get this other one:
 Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation.

 If I revert to gdm, everything is fine again. What may be causing
 this problem?

 Also, user photos are not shown in kdm. The default image is
 displayed for every user, despite they all have their photos
 configured since before F10 was installed. I did a fresh install of
 F10 (didn't upgrade from F9), but the /home file system was not
 modified. The user photos still appear in Kickoff. KDM was configured
 with System Configuration to show preferentially the user photos and
 use the default image only if users have not provided their own
 photos. Why aren't the user photos displayed in kdm?

Both problems were solved when SELinux was disabled. Now I'm counting 5 
weird problems solved by disabling SELinux. SELinux should never have 
been enabled by default during installation, let alone Anaconda not 
allowing users to disable it during install.
I can only imagine the number of problems novice users face because of 
SELinux without being able to solve them, either for not being aware of 
SELinux existence and functionality or for not knowing how to disable 
this damn thing.
Every time I install a new version of Fedora I give SELinux a try and 
then always greatly regret I did it later.

[]'s
Marcelo

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Re: Problems with kdm in F10 (solved - SELinux issues)

2008-11-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:

 Em Dom 30 Nov 2008, Marcelo Magno T. Sales escreveu:
 People,

 I've just installed F10 and have fully updated the system.
 When I replace gdm with kdm, I can only log in to KDE using the root
 account. When I try to log in using a regular user account, I get the
 following error message:
 Cannot enter home directory. Using /.
 When I click ok, I get this other one:
 Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation.

 If I revert to gdm, everything is fine again. What may be causing
 this problem?

 Also, user photos are not shown in kdm. The default image is
 displayed for every user, despite they all have their photos
 configured since before F10 was installed. I did a fresh install of
 F10 (didn't upgrade from F9), but the /home file system was not
 modified. The user photos still appear in Kickoff. KDM was configured
 with System Configuration to show preferentially the user photos and
 use the default image only if users have not provided their own
 photos. Why aren't the user photos displayed in kdm?
 
 Both problems were solved when SELinux was disabled. Now I'm counting 5
 weird problems solved by disabling SELinux. 

That's not really a solution, just a workaround.

Odd, I can't reproduce either problem with SELinux enabled.  I'd venture it's 
either a geniuine selinux issue (mislabelling) or a local configuration, or 
some combination of the 2.

Does setroubleshoot highlight anything out of the ordinary?

-- Rex

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