Re: libc.so.6: Cannot open shared object file: Permission denied

[Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Nelson wrote:

> At 10:21 AM +0200 8/21/05, Toralf Lund wrote:
>  
>
> > jdow wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > From: "Toralf Lund" <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > After upgrading my Fedora Core 3 machine to Fedora Core 4, I started
> > > > getting a really weird problem. During startup I see a lot of
> > > > messages of the form:
> > > >
> > > > libc.so.6: Cannot open shared object file: Permission denied
> > > >        
> > [ ... ]
> >
> >    
> >
> > > >        
> > > Been monkeying with file permissions, perhaps?
> > >
> > > If so "chmod 755 /lib/libc-2.3.5.so" should help. If "libc-2.3.5.so"
> > > is missing you are likely completely hosed.
> > >      
> > No, this is *obviously* not a normal file permission problem. And the
> > .so file is *of course* not missing. Please read my original message again.
> >    
>
> Try relabeling SELinux?
>
>    # touch /.autorelabel
>
> and then reboot.
>  

Yes. That helped. Thanks!

I'm not sure I understand why, though. Care to explain it? (SELinux is 
quite new to me..)

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