[hardy] unable to start cupsys if selinux is enforcing.

Me too on ubuntu-8.04-beta-server-amd64

This issue came back for me today while upgrading package cupsys to version 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.

root@nemo:~# getenforce
Enforcing
root@nemo:~# setenforce 1
root@nemo:~# /etc/init.d/cupsys stop
 * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
   ...done.
root@nemo:~# /etc/init.d/cupsys start
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
start-stop-daemon: Unable to start /usr/sbin/cupsd: Permission denied (Permission denied)
root@nemo:~# setenforce 0
root@nemo:~# /etc/init.d/cupsys start
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
   ...done.
root@nemo:~#

The following fixed my upgraded 7.10 to 8.04 setup.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall selinux-policy-refpolicy-cups
sudo init 6

On a fresh install I did 'apt-get install selinux' and I am able to restart cups as normal. It looks like this bug only affects 7.10 or upgrades from 7.10.

I did however find a new bug related to selinux stopping hal (bug #224921)

installed selinux packages and versions:

libselinux 2.0.55-0ubuntu4
python-selinux 2.0.55-0ubuntu4
selinux 0.2
selinux-policy-refpolicy 0.0.20071214-0ubuntu3
selinux-policy-refpolicy-cups 0.0.20071214-0ubuntu3
selinux-policy-refpolicy-unconfined 0.0.20071214-0ubuntu3
selinux-utils 2.0.55-0ubuntu4

If anyone has the logs from their upgrade to 8.04 that would be great. the logs are in /var/log/dist-upgrade/
Also your sources.list would be good.

This way we can see if something failed during the upgrade that would cause this and thus need to be fixed in update-manager or selinux.

Thanks!

Attached are my sources and logs.

Christer Edwards wrote:
> On a fresh install I did 'apt-get install selinux' and I am able to
> restart cups as normal. It looks like this bug only affects 7.10 or
> upgrades from 7.10.
>
It also hit 8.04 beta but upgrades that arrived about a week prior to
the full release Heron fixed the problem.:-)

ian
> I did however find a new bug related to selinux stopping hal (bug
> #224921)
>
> installed selinux packages and versions:
>
> libselinux 2.0.55-0ubuntu4
> python-selinux 2.0.55-0ubuntu4
> selinux 0.2
> selinux-policy-refpolicy 0.0.20071214-0ubuntu3
> selinux-policy-refpolicy-cups 0.0.20071214-0ubuntu3
> selinux-policy-refpolicy-unconfined 0.0.20071214-0ubuntu3
> selinux-utils 2.0.55-0ubuntu4
>
>

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Reassinging to the refpolicy package