Issue with F13 dracut/kernel/selinux

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Nov 19 19:28:38 UTC 2009


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:04:44 -0500,
  Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2009 04:12 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > I just went to rawhide over the last day and am not able to boot into
> > kernel 2.6.32-0.48.rc7.git1.fc13 unless selinux is disabled. (permissive
> > isn't good enough). I can boot into my old kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12 which
> > had a dracut generated image from before the upgrade. The error occurs
> > when udev is trying to unlock my nonroot partitions. I get an error
> > message refering to filesetcon not working on a /dev/mapper file. I get
> > asked for passwords again (since all of the file systems have the same
> > luks password I normally don't have to do this) and the correct password
> > doesn't work. If I boot with selinux=0, the system boots with the
> > 2.6.32-0.48.rc7.git1.fc13 kernel (but then I have to relabel the next
> > time I boot without that option).
> > I am using selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.33-1.fc13.
> > 
> I have not made the leap yet to F13 to see what the problems are.  I will look into this.

This is now bug 539282. I filed it against udev and copied you.

If I was to guess, I would guess is that udev is relabelling the wrong name
causing the properly named file to remnain unusable. But I could be totally
wrong on my guess.




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