[ale] Problems w/ users under CentOS 5.3 ....

[Jim Kinney]

Sadly, no (as far as I can tell). The .autorelabel is only findable in /

Hmm. It's the mount process that does it so putting it in /home
_might_ work. I'm not sure. If you have the time, try it and report
back the status :-)


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM, William A. Mahaffey III<wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> On 09/01/09 19:41, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Ah. different version of gnome doesn't like the existing gnome
>> configuration (gnome is grumpy like that!).
>>
>> Set the box to boot to runlevel 3. reboot. log in as the user with the
>> gnome problem at the text screen login prompt.
>>
>> mv .gnome2 .gnome2.old
>> mv .gnome .gnome.old
>> mv .gnome2_private .gnome2_private.old
>>
>> now run startx and X will start and gnome will recreate it's startup configs
>>
>> set runlevel back to 5 in /etc/inittab and reboot.
>>
>> If that fails, go back to runlevel 3 mode and check perm on the user .
>> files (check all files for that matter!) If selinux is set to
>> "enforcing targeted" (the default in CentOs 5.3) the selinux
>> attributes are likely missing in the old /home. Easiest fix is (as
>> root)
>> touch /.autorelabel
>> reboot
>> The next boot may take a bit of time (an extra 5-10 minutes depending
>> on speed) but the default selinux perms will be applied properly.
>>
>> If you just don't care, edit /etc/selinux/config and change to
>> permissive from enforcing and to targeted from strict.
>>
>
>
>
> Hmmmmm .... Question: Can I do that touch as 'touch /home/.autorelabel'
> to confine the damage & time spent, or must it be /.autorelabel ? TIA ....
>
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