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Bug 119406
| Summary: | GDMsetup asks root passwd, then doesn't launch | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Benjamin Thompson <bt3819> |
| Component: | gdm | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | eloli |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:02:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I concur. This happens here too. I can't load "Services" or "User and Groups" or *anything else* that requires authentication. It gives me the same stuff Ben said: Could not set exec context to user_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t. When logged in as "root" it works fine, but when logged in as "eugenia" it just bails out. Please note that this is an "Everything" installation, I installed all packages. I thought I will say this here just in case it has something to do with the problem (however my gut feeling says that it has something to do with SELinux). Please note that this is *not* a GDMSetup bug, it happens on ALL pref panels that require authentication. See bug #117499 too. The same here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119414 I think thats a problem with SELinux?! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117499 *** I had this problem on a linux-ppc. I changed the su and gdmsetup files in /etc/pam.d/ and it worked at least for su. I'm still muddling with the gdmsetup entries there, but I suppose the problem is pam, not selinux. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: I have tried launching "Login Screen," or gdmsetup, from the menus via GNOME as well as KDE and through Konsole. The prompt for the root password appears every time, I put the password in every time, and the prompt disappears and the app never launches--every time. When I try launching via konsole, the following is shown in the konsole after inputting the root password in the aforementioned query window: Could not set exec context to user_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot FC2/t2 into KDE or GNOME with non-root user. 2. Launch gdmsetup through {main menu->system settings->login screen} or via an xterm 3. Provide root password, hit OK. Actual Results: gdmsetup simply will not launch. If launched from konsole, the error: "Could not set exec context to user_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t." is produced. Expected Results: gdmsetup ought to have launched normally. There were no strange settings in my install that should have produced this.