SELinux is blocking the lircmd remote-controlled mouse from starting.
I have lirc properly set up and am able to use it to control amarok, kaffeine
&c when I start irkick, so I know that the remote is not defective and that
the system is reading the signals sent.
I use the lircm mouse to control programs remotely. I have the mouse defined
in xorg.conf and it used to work perfectly in f7 (when I had, in frustration,
disabled selinux).
In f8, I insist on finally using selinux in the default enforcing mode. The
problem with lircmd has been persisting since about f3 or f4 and since then,
I have had to disable selinux to get it to work. After all of this time,
there must be a way for linux software to co-exist with selinux?
Xorg.0.log excerpt:
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) LircMouse: Device: "/dev/lircm"
(**) LircMouse: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) LircMouse: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/lircm"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/lircm
Permission denied.
(EE) LircMouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "LircMouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
From the SELinux troubleshooter:
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/Xorg (xdm_xserver_t) "read write" to
(device_t).
Raw Audit Messages:
avc: denied { read write } for comm=X dev=tmpfs egid=0 euid=0
exe=/usr/bin/Xorg exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name=lircm pid=2076
scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 sgid=0
subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 suid=0 tclass=fifo_file
tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 tty=tty7 uid=0