Re: pear-shaped behaviour after enough make reloads

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:12:29PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> i thought i should report what might be quite a serious issue.
> 
> the procedure i use for development of policy files is to do
> _stacks_ of edits, _stacks_ of make reloads, stacks of
> audit2allow -d -v -l > /tmp/foo, analyse the results and put
> the appropriate ones into the new policy.
> 
> after enough make reloads, the behaviour of my system starts to get
> a bit wonky.

> after a reboot in such circumstances, i find that my system
> is pretty much unusable: i have to run a ldconfig to fix a
> problem of libraries being not found - things like that.

 this problem reoccurred just now.
 
 for absolutely no reason that i can think of, whilst staring
 at a random config file with vi, cupsys started to be unable
 to access its config files.

 then i tried to do a ldconfig and got selinux permissions denied
 access to write /etc/ld.so.cache~!

 i could not even do a shutdown - permission was banned to access
 /dev/initctl.

 i had to kill off processes manually one by one, umount the partitions
 manually, poweroff, and i chose to boot with enforcing=0 init 1 in
 order to safely run ldconfig and make relabel.

 i find this all a bit odd, i haven't a clue what's causing it.

 l.



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