Thursday, October 2, 2008

SELinux and Intel Fortran/C compilers

I have met several problems with SELinux when using Intel Fortran/C compilers on EMT64 systems. For examples, one with the libifcore.so.5 conflict : http://physicscomputing.blogspot.com/2008/04/intel-fortran-compiler-selinux-and.html.

A recent problem is the program stopped after running for a couple of hours, only reporting page errors in /var/log/messages. The system sometimes crashed. After I disabled the selinux, everything is fine.

SELinux has restricted certain access to shared libraries. You can configure it to allow the access to shared libraries. In Fedora Core, you can bring up "system-config-security". If you feel that the computation stability is of the first priority or your computer is well protected(such as nodes in a cluster), you can simply disable SELinux.

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