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From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@g.o>
To: Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk>
Cc: Hardened Gentoo Mail List <gentoo-hardened@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Major merge problems
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:59:21
Message-Id: 1067461159.4243.26.camel@chris.pebenito.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Major merge problems by Mike Williams
1 On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 08:41, Mike Williams wrote:
2 > For about the last week I have had an SELinux install running, it all appeared
3 > to be working OK.
4 > I was getting loads of access denied warnings from selinux about portage
5 > access it's cache and things, the best I could do was to unset 'userpriv'.
6
7 I don't use any of the usersandbox/userpriv stuff, so I can't test this
8 right now. Are you in permissive, like I suggested? :)
9
10 > Then I had problems upgrading portage itself. The compile and merge would go
11 > without a hitch, but it would seg fault at exactly the same point everytime
12 > when doing the qmerge (to the filesystem).
13 > I *think* it worked ok this morning when I upgraded to 2.0.49-r15.
14
15 I think there was a segfault bug with an older portage version.
16
17 > My major problem now is with glibc (and zlib), both when merging to the live
18 > filesystem will get to a point (--- /lib/, --- /usr/lib), and truncate the
19 > file (libc-2.3.2.so, libz.blah)
20
21 > If I boot off a CD and mount the partitions /lib/libc-2.3.2 is 0 bytes (can't
22 > remember zlib), the file waiting in the sandboxed image is 1.5M, and simply
23 > copying it over and rebooting fixes it.
24
25 This is probably some weird problem with the old python-selinux.
26 Unmerge that, and it will most likely work. We've done a lot more
27 testing on python-selinux-2.7 for the new API, and hopefully this kind
28 of weird bug will not happen.
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