Craig Ringer wrote: > Roger wrote: > >> Apologies for the length of this post. >> >> This type of SELinux alert pops up frequently since installing the 135svn >> last >> night. >> I have had it today on 3 different .so files that Scribus installed and have >> run >> the chcon -t textrel_shlib_t >> /home/user/scribusbuild/lib/scribus/plugins/libmeshdistortion.so as below. >> Is this a bug or something in my system. >> What can I do to fix the problem >> > > Given that you've run the chcon command given by SELinunx I'm not sure > what your workaround options are. SELinux is a bit of a black box to me. > > As Scribus is not security-critical and won't be processing untrusted > data, let alone with the mesh distortion plugin, it's fine to permit it > to load. > > As for the actual issue with the Scribus code that's causing SELinux to > complain: > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/textrelocs.html > > ... which notes among other things that modern code really MUST be built > with -fpic or -fpie. > I don't have libmeshdistortion.so in my installation of 135. Is this something to do with PoDoFo? (one thing I don't have)
Greg
