Re-declaration of type entropyd_t error during update of selinux-policy-targeted or selinux-policy-mls

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Issue

  • During update of selinux-policy-targeted, the following error message is printed

    Re-declaration of type entropyd_t
    Failed to create node
    Bad type declaration at /etc/selinux/targeted/tmp/modules/100/entropyd/cil:1
    semodule:  Failed!
    
  • During update of selinux-policy-mls, the following error message is printed

    Re-declaration of type entropyd_t
    Failed to create node
    Bad type declaration at /etc/selinux/mls/tmp/modules/100/entropyd/cil:1
    semodule:  Failed!
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7)
  • selinux-policy-targeted and selinux-policy-mls
  • redhat-upgrade-tool

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