From: Justin Smith <jsmith_at_mcs.drexel.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 2002 14:43:58 -0500

I know GDM is not really approved for use in SELinux, but I tried the patched version and got the following bizarre problem:

I got everything working, used it for a while and then logged out. When I left my office, the GDM screen was on the monitor (I turned off the monitor for the weekend). When I checked the system from home, it was down.

Now I restarted it and checked the logs:

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Jan 18 15:25:28 vorpal gdm(pam_unix)[5736]: session closed for user jsmith
Jan 18 15:25:28 vorpal gdm[5736]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
Jan 18 15:25:28 vorpal gnome-name-server[9333]: input condition is: 0x11, exiting
Jan 18 15:25:31 vorpal modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81

Jan 18 15:25:36 vorpal gdm[1184]: gdm_child_action: Master halting...
Jan 18 15:25:38 vorpal kernel: 
Jan 18 15:25:38 vorpal kernel: avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=1184

exe=/sbin/init path=/dev/initctl dev=03:01 ino=24199 scontext=system_u:system_r:gdm_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:initctl_t tclass=fifo_file

Jan 18 15:25:39 vorpal Font Server[1136]: terminating 
Jan 18 15:25:39 vorpal xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded
Jan 18 15:25:40 vorpal gpm: gpm shutdown succeeded
Jan 18 15:25:41 vorpal kernel: 
Jan 18 15:25:41 vorpal kernel: avc:  denied  { unlink } for  pid=995

exe=/usr/sbin/httpd path=/run/httpd.mm.994.sem dev=03:05 ino=304630 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_run_t tclass=file

Jan 18 15:25:44 vorpal httpd: httpd shutdown succeeded
Jan 18 15:25:44 vorpal sshd[869]: Received signal 15; terminating.
Jan 18 15:25:44 vorpal sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
Jan 18 15:25:44 vorpal sendmail: sendmail shutdown succeeded

It looks to me as if the system did a normal shut down about 10 seconds after I logged out (?!). Unless some student tip-toed into my office and shut it down from the GDM menu (I was giving both of my classes online exams that were postponed by this outage), somehow GDM shut the system down on its own. At least I'm not going to use GDM with SELinux for a while...

Any ideas?

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