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by lima 3424 days ago
If you'd post the actual errors, I'm sure we could help you with that.
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You mean the actual error message? Sorry, it's already solved now and I didn't write it down. It was in Spanish, so I also don't remember how it was worded. But its content is correctly described above: Unable to open /etc/resolv.conf.

And btw, that is exactly what I don't want. I do report errors, I solve bugs. But I don't want to debug SE-errors, which just because of its paranoia makes perfectly normal usage impossible, so far that distros that enable SEL spit out errormessages immediately after installation.

I don't see its purpose anyway.

The main value in SELinux is to protect apps against things they should never be allowed to do (like your web app reading /etc/shadow or notepad listening for network connections) so that even if they get hit with a 0day, they're still not really vulnerable because the SEL stuff blocks all the bad things they could do. It really truly works in practice to prevent a bunch of bad stuff. In reality though, most people just disable it because it's a pain to learn and deal with.
I know. But thanks for the answer. It is not what I meant, but it responds to what I wrote.

A security-solution that makes normal use impossible is not a solution. Security solutions never work if they make usability worse. SELinux goes farther, it also makes functionality worse till impossible. That is what I meant when I wrote that I don't see the point of it.

Something like that can be a good solution if you are manually hardening a specific process. As a general security solution it is completely unfit. I don't see the point of pushing it for that. Fedora should never have activated it.