[DSE-Dev] Bug#731212: policycoreutils: restorecon sometimes fails with error 255 unexpectedly (but repeatedly)

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:16:36 +1100 Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> 
wrote:

Hi Russell,

 > A# /sbin/restorecon -R /dev ; echo $?
 > 0
 > B# /sbin/restorecon -R /etc/mtab /dev; echo $?
 > /sbin/restorecon: Warning no default label for /etc/mtab
 > 0
 > C# /sbin/restorecon -R /etc/mtab; echo $?
 > /sbin/restorecon: Warning no default label for /etc/mtab
 > 0
 > D# /sbin/restorecon -R /dev /etc/mtab; echo $?
 > 255
 >
 > I believe that restorecon is not operating correctly here. Firstly 
the error
 > message about /etc/mtab should occur in case D.
 >
 > The error return should happen in cases B, C, and D if it concerns 
the warning
 > about /etc/mtab.
 >
 > If the error return doesn't concern the displayed warning about 
/etc/mtab then
 > it should have an error message telling the user what went wrong.
 >

Can you still reproduce this with the version of jessie or higher?

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville