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Gnome terminal fails to start

After upgrading to Fedora 18, on certain occasions, gnome-terminal will fail to launch, requiring me to log out of the desktop and log in again. I tried tracing the error and found the following in ...
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How to set SELinux samba policy to enable dirs deletion/renaming?

I`m lost in trouble with SELinux once more link to my previous solved Q on Samba SELinux When share's users try to delete a dir on share they fail with SELinux advertisement to solve problem do ...
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How to get Wine to work with SELinux?

I want to run a .msi file on Fedora 17. After installing Wine Windows Program Loader on my Linux machine, it failed to run the file. A check on /var/log/messages shows the following line: Jan 11 ...
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SELinux interfering with host/guest file sharing using KVM

I'm running Fedora 17 with KVM and the virtual machine runs okay. I tried to follow this to get access to a file on the host system but SELinux prevents the VM from accessing any files other than ...
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SELinux and samba

I have to set SELinux setenforce Permissive in order to give access to my samba share. I wonder if there is proper way to configure SELinux policy for fedora 17 as good admins do.
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To check which resource is being accessed by which process

I have some process running on my system. I need to list out which of the process at a moment has acquired/is using one or more of these in my system: Ethernet Camera USB Bluetooth WiFi File System ...
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How to mount NFS 3 volumes on Fedora 17?

I installed the package nfs-utils and tried it via: # mount -t nfs server:/mnt /mnt mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking. mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep ...
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SELinux stops Google Chrome from executing

I can no longer start Google Chrome on Fedora 14 (using GNOME). strace strace google-chrome ... readlink("/proc/self/exe", "/opt/google/chrome/chrome"..., 4096) = 25 socketpair(PF_FILE, ...
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Fedora 15 :Twitter on Google Chrome

It's been almost 15 days since I installed Fedora 15 on my laptop. And since day 1, Twitter seems to be having some issue opening up. Whenever I try to load twitter.com, it loads an "Aw Snap" page. ...
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Which process/program create/write the file which I/O is redirected to?

When learning SELinux, I executed semanage fcontext -l > fcontext.txt under /root directory to dump massive fcontext information to a file. The funny result is: fcontext.txt was created, but the ...
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Apache won't start on Fedora 15

I can't get Apache to start on Fedora 15. I downloaded a project into /var/www/html and changed myself to the owner (recursively), though I don't think I changed any SELinux contexts or anything like ...
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How can I configure SELinux when the semanage command isn't found?

I'm having a very hard time configuring SELinux to allow Sending mail. Looking into selinux documentation I've found I can manage ports via the semanage command, but the command can't be found. Is ...
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SELinux denied access

I keep receiving this message from SELinux in a bug report. I am new to Linux, running Fedora 13 and I am learning as I go. Any advice on what this might be would be appreciated. Summary: SELinux is ...
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Vlc Media Problem in Fedora!

I am using Fedora 13 and my VLC media player is showing this problem for the past one week. How do i rectify this error. Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/vlc from loading ...