On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:01 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
After I booted my FC11 test system and did an update, I tried to
shutdown and got this failure.
I clicked system->shutdown->shutdown_button and the system hung. An
investigation of the log shows that attached behavior.
If I log out and click the shutdown button it works, so it seems to only
happen when using the button while logged in.
Running 'shutdown -h' as root also works.
I assume that this is an SElinux behavior, before I BZ it, is it intentional?
If the system *is* intentionally configured (whether by default or by
customization) to disallow mortal users to shutdown or reboot the
system, it should not "hang", but produce a friendly error message
informing the user they are not allowed to do that. If it does not do
that, it seems like a usability bug which should be reported.
I see that Bug 495326 was closed; after updating and relabeling, are you
still experiencing this problem and getting AVC denials? If so, I would
open a new bug if there isn't another one already.
It does not sound like a rational default configuration if you are not
allowed to reboot the system as a normal user, but to get around that
restriction, you simply need to log out. IMO, that would be a separate
problem which should also be reported if that's the behavior you are
seeing with the default configuration.
-B.