Setxattr Errors

Posted on May 03, 2007

So, old hudge was kicking up a helluva fuss about setxattr errors this morning.

I was getting the following errors, over and over and over again in my syslog file. 

hudge kernel: post_create: setxattr failed, rc=28 (dev=sda1 ino=8339458)

In fact, I got so many of these errors that they filled up my root partition. The full disk caused mysql to stop working altogether and the corruption of a couple of tables in my wordpress database. Question is, with SELinux disabled on my box, why would I get 50GB worth of setxattr errors?

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  1. n3v.net administrator Thu, 17 May 2007 10:57:24 MDT

    Please check if your SELinux is in permissive, replace it with disabled (/etc/sysconfig/selinux)

    n3v.net

  2. Administrator Thu, 17 May 2007 13:59:33 MDT

    SELinux is in permissive mode, but I have /etc/sysconfig/selinux set correctly.

    $ cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux | grep =disab
SELINUX=disabled

    Unfortunately, in /var/log/dmesg I see the following.

    SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
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