FC4 error?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Sep 16 15:57:47 UTC 2005
Hongwei Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just deleted all old partitions, created new partitions and installed a
> fresh FC4 system. The installation did not show any error. After the
> installation, I reboot it. During the booting process, I saw an error message
> after "Setting hostname xxx: [OK]" as:
>
> Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock mkdir failed, read-only
> filesystem
>
> Then, other booting processes pass through. Now, the system is running, I can
> access it using ssh, httpd is working. However, when I start dovecot (I did
> not change /etc/dovecot.conf), it failed:
>
> # /etc/init.d/dovecot start
> Starting Dovecot Imap: [FAILED]
>
> I turn the service dovecot on, then reboot. I saw the error message as above
> and the new error:
>
> Starting service dovecot failed: can't use SSL certificate ...
> /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot.pem permission denied
>
> (it went through so fast that I can't catch all the words). If I start
> dovecot manually, it is ok:
>
> # /usr/sbin/dovecot
> # ps xa | grep dov
> 2622 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot
> 2624 ? S 0:00 dovecot-auth
>
> The system logs don't show anything related to dovecot, nor the message
> ".../var/lock mkdir failed..."
>
> I update the kernel from 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 to 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4, reboot, but
> got the same error messages as before.
>
> Can somebody tell me what's wrong with the installation and the system? Are
> the above two error messages related each other? Will the error "/var/lock
> mkdir failed" cause any other problems?
>
> If I turn off selinux, then I can start service dovecot:
>
> # setenforce 0
> # /etc/init.d/dovecot start
> Starting Dovecot Imap: [ OK ]
>
> and it creates an entry /var/lock/subsys/dovecot. However, when I reboot the
> system, the same problems and errors show up again. It seems that it is
> related to selinux. I am using targeted, enforcing selinux and has the policy
> selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.16-6 installed from the FC4 CDs.
>
> How to solve the problem? Thanks a LOT!
The latest selinux-policy-targeted errata package contains some dovecot
fixes. Try updating that and see if things improve.
Paul.
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