Bala,
I would not advocate disabling SELinux entirely to resolve this issue.
SELinux is one of the key security features of Fedora Linux and some
other Linux distributions that have adopted it. It has already been
demonstrated to be robust with respect to so-called zero-day attacks.
I would first look to take a more surgical approach to resolve this
particular issue with this package. Using the SETroubleshoot daemon is
the easiest way to accomplish this as it will provide specific
instructions.
As with any security approach, there are trade-offs between security
and usability, but SELinux as a mandatory access control system is
well worthwhile keeping in place.
BTW, as a future reference, there is a r-sig-fedora list:
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
HTH,
Marc
On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Bala subramanian wrote:
Dear Marc and Peter,
Thank you so much. In fact disabling the SElinux solved the problem.
Bala
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Marc Schwartz
<marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote:
On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Bala subramanian wrote:
Hi,
I tried to install from four different mirrors. The result is the
same. I
dnt understand what the following error means.
/usr/lib/R/library/ncdf/libs/ncdf.so: cannot restore segment prot
after
reloc: Permission denied
Error in library(ncdf) : .First.lib failed for 'ncdf'
I even tried to change the permission of ncdf.so but still i am not
able to
load the library.
Nothing to do with the download. I think SElinux is getting in your
way
(so your unstated system could be RedHat Enterprise Linux?).
Contact your sysadm or google for the error message.
(One of the hits suggests that you might need to run
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t ncdf.so
but, well, no warranties...)
The OP did indicate that F10 was the platform:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20090421/65ee5d6e/attachment.pl
so I would agree here that SELinux is almost certainly the culprit
as it does control relocation.
If you have the SE Troubleshoot daemon running, you should get a
yellow star/badge symbol on one of your desktop dock panels.
Typically, if you click on this, it will bring up a dialog window
that will have some specific suggestions for resolving the problem.
You can see some visual examples here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/SETroubleshootUsabilityImprovements
More info on SETroubleshoot here:
https://fedorahosted.org/setroubleshoot/
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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