{"id":3973,"date":"2026-09-09T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=3973"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:41:53","slug":"linux-client-installation-fails-with-error-warning-installation-timed-out-on-setting-up-selinux-integration","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/linux-client-installation-fails-with-error-warning-installation-timed-out-on-setting-up-selinux-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux client installation fails with error &#8220;Warning: Installation timed out on setting up SELinux integration.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Elements Linux Protection or Business Suite Linux Security 64 installation fails with error &quot;Warning: Installation timed out on setting up SELinux integration.&quot;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Full error message:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Installing WithSecure Linux Security 64<\/em><br \/><em>Setting up integration with SELinux<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Warning: Installation timed out on setting up SELinux integration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Product activation failed to complete successfully. Please check the product<\/em><br \/><em>installation and network connectivity requirements, and retry the installation<\/em><br \/><em>after making changes (if any) to the system configuration. Before contacting<\/em><br \/><em>WithSecure support, please run the command<\/em><br \/><em>\/opt\/f-secure\/linuxsecurity\/bin\/fsdiag\u2024sh<\/em><br \/><em>to generate a diagnostics package from this system, and attach the package<\/em><br \/><em>(whose file name the command will output) to the support request.<\/em><br \/><em>setup: timed out on setting up SELinux policy integration: failed to find SELinux module withsecure-linuxsecurity-services installed<\/em><br \/><em>2026-09-07 13:06:52 src\/fsbootstrap.c:488[7] executing &#39;\/opt\/f-secure\/linuxsecurity\/download\/linuxsecurity-1200-linux-x86_64\/1774510304\/content\/setup&#39; failed, result 256<\/em><br \/><em>2026-09-07 13:06:52 src\/fsbootstrap.c:244[7] install failed<\/em><br \/><em>activate: activation failed: exit status 2<\/em><br \/><em>Failed to activate the product!<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>If you have followed the uninstallation instructions to remove the previous Linux Security 64 or Elements Linux Protection installation and you still receive the &quot;Warning: Installation timed out on setting up SELinux integration.&quot; error when trying to install the Linux client, check if you have SELinux in use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you have SELinux in use and you receive the error message even though you have set SELinux into permissive mode, it could be that the SELinux policy modules of a previous Linux Security 64 or Elements Linux Protection installation cause a conflict with the new modules that the installer is trying to set up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can use the <strong>semodule &#8211;list-modules<\/strong> command to list all the modules. If you can see in the resulting list any withsecure or fsecure related modules, please remove them using the <strong>semodule -r<\/strong> command.\u00a0 Then run the command <strong>semodule -B<\/strong> to recompile the active policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After you have done these steps you can try the client installation again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elements Linux Protection or Business Suite Linux Security 64 installation fails with error &#8220;Warning: Installation timed out on setting up SELinux integration.&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-3973","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000015593","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-09-09 12:41:53","import_hash":"23cbe3217f60baefea438a0d7129f93fb3580db9","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}