unable to start named service

Question

Whenever I try to run the named service, I get the following even though my permissions and folder ownership is all fine:

[root@f13 ~]# service named start
Starting named: 
Error in named configuration:
zone localhost/IN: loading from master file /var/lib/named/localhost.zone failed: permission denied
zone localhost/IN: not loaded due to errors.
_default/localhost/IN: permission denied
zone 235.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading from master file /var/lib/named/mydb-for-192-168-235 failed: permission denied
zone 235.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: not loaded due to errors.
_default/235.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: permission denied
zone example.org/IN: loading from master file /var/lib/named/mydb-for-example-dot-org failed: permission denied
zone example.org/IN: not loaded due to errors.
_default/example.org/IN: permission denied
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@f13 ~]# ls -lh /var/lib/named/
total 12K
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 named named 191 May 27 09:13 localhost.zone
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 named named 277 May 27 09:15 mydb-for-192-168-235
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 named named 269 May 27 09:14 mydb-for-example-dot-org

Answer 1

f13? So I guess it's fedora 13, that could be a selinux problem.

Try restore the selinux flags on /var/lib/named/localhost.zone, i.e

chcon system_u:object_r:named_conf_t /var/lib/named/*

Also show the output of ls -Zlh /var/lib/named