How to cross-upgrade Fedora x86(32-bit) => x86_64(64-bit) using 'preupgrade'
Gerry Reno
greno at verizon.net
Wed Apr 22 20:11:48 UTC 2009
Gerry Reno wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:32 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>
>>> David P. Quigley wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:41 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> REMOVE/REINSTALL SELINUX (SELinux gets hopelessly confused
>>>>> through all this so just remove and reinstall later)
>>>>>
>>>> I'm curious what you mean by this? Do you mean all the labeling is
>>>> off?
>>>> Is there something wrong with the tools not working during this
>>>> process?
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>
>>> We were getting all sorts of avc denials and when we ran 'fixfiles
>>> relabel' it would get errors and we were not able to relabel the
>>> system. So the easiest route was just to remove selinux during the
>>> process and reinstall it afterwards, which worked perfectly.
>>>
>>
>> 'setenforce 0' wasn't enough?
>>
> For some reason, no. We couldn't get logged back into the system
> because of avc denial problems. So we just uninstalled it and
> reinstalled it after everything was finished.
>
It appeared like it had become totally confused. Probably because of
all the different package removals and installs. Maybe there is a
common cause for why the rpmdb got totally confused and selinux getting
confused. I was not able to find out why this was happening only found
a way to work around the problems.
Regards,
Gerry
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