Segmentation fault when emerging packages after libpcre upgrade?
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 09 July 2014SELinux users might be facing failures when emerge is merging a package to the file system, with an error that looks like so:
>>> Setting SELinux security labels
/usr/lib64/portage/bin/misc-functions.sh: line 1112: 23719 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/setfiles "${file_contexts_path}" -r "${D}" "${D}"
* ERROR: dev-libs/libpcre-8.35::gentoo …Switching context depending on user code-wise
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 12 January 2014I blogged about how SELinux decides what the context should be for a particular Linux user; how it checks the default context(s) and tells the SELinux-aware application on what the new context should be. Let's look into the C code that does so, and how an application should behave …