Centos

tnbk00 · 08-20-2006, 05:33 PM

Hi,

Im running centos 4.3 and decided to upgrade to KDE 3.5, however after I upgraded apps that "run as root" hang. I can open a terminal and su to root no worries, but opening a super user terminal will hang after entering the root password.

Any ideas would be appreciated. I did a couple of searches of the forums but didnt seemt to find anything of substance, could be my search methods tho :P

Thanks

Daniel

Brian1 · 08-20-2006, 06:19 PM

Does seem odd but if KDE was the only upgrade you did then lets rename the directories that store KDE configurations per user settings.
Open a terminal and su like you can.
Then run the following commands
mv /root/.kde /root/.kde_backup
mv /root/.config /root/.config_backup
mv /root/.local /root/.local_backup

Now exit and try your other login way that hangs.

Brian1

tnbk00 · 08-20-2006, 06:48 PM

There is another oddity when I su to root i get a message
Your default context is root:system_r:unconfined_t.
Do you Want to choose a different one?[n]

I havent come accross this one before !!

tnbk00 · 08-20-2006, 06:59 PM

Oh and i tried moving the folders in the root directory and no go

Brian1 · 08-20-2006, 07:20 PM

How about trying this. Hit Alt-Ctrl-F2. Login as root. Does it lock up?
If it does then I have no idea what to try next other than renaming /root to /root2 and then create a new /root. Logout and back in. Other than that it is deeper than I can figure out without being there.

Brian1

tnbk00 · 08-20-2006, 07:48 PM

yes i can log in like that. Thanks for trying anyway

it seems to be an issue with kdesu

tnbk00 · 08-20-2006, 08:02 PM

I found the issue

because of the context issue when su'ing kdesu was hanging. Some google digging and i found this from a centos forum:
editing /etc/pam.d/su, changing
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open multiple
to
session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open

This fixed the issue. w00t

Thanks for your help anyways

Daniel

Brian1 · 08-21-2006, 03:41 PM

Glad to see you have it working Daniel. Also nice to see you posted the fix that worked.

Brian1