I was getting a lot of these: type=AVC msg=audit(1770892256.261:1384): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=35078 comm=“tl-session” name=“/” dev=“pidfs” ino=1 scontext=system_u:system_r:thinlinc_session_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:pidfs_t:s0 tclass=filesystem permissive=0 Otherwise from a user p…

@CendioOssman any ideas here? Could it be related to this? [image] WARNING vsmagent.sessions: Broken session for user abc, tl-session process 123 does not exist ThinLinc I noticed a lot of entries of that type in /var/log/vsmagent.log. From what I can tell, p…

No, that message is expected during normal operation of ThinLinc. That AVC is not familiar to me. What distribution is this from, @JBL ?

@CendioOssman I’m on Fedora 43.

Thanks. I can reproduce it here now as well. Like you, I could not see any practical issues. But we should investigate and see how we can resolve it. I’ve added this bugzilla entry to track it: 8794 – SELinux AVC for tl-session: getattr on pidfs

SELinux : denied getattr for tl-session

ThinLinc

aaron 13 February 2026 22:28 2

@CendioOssman any ideas here? Could it be related to this?

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SELinux : denied getattr for tl-session

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