4.29. selinux-policy

When upgrading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation to 5 Server, OpenOffice will no longer work correctly with SELinux. This is because the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of OpenOffice is built using an incorrect library. As a result, SELinux will prevent OpenOffice from accessing any shared libraries, causing OpenOffice to fail.

To work around this, update the SELinux context to allow OpenOffice to access shared libraries. To do so, run the following commands:

semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib/ooo-1.1(/.*)?'

semanage fcontext -a -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/lib64/ooo-1.1(/.*)?'

restorecon -Rv /usr/lib/ooo-1.19

restorecon -Rv /usr/lib64/ooo-1.19

Alternatively, you can also upgrade your OpenOffice to a correct version compatible with SELinux in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. You can do this by subscribing to the "Productivity App" child channel in Red Hat Network and running the following command:

yum install openoffice-{base,calc,draw,emailmerge,graphicfilter,headless,impress,javafilter,math,pyuno,writer,xsltfilter}

(BZ#477103)