Odd messages during bootup from gdm

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri May 5 16:36:05 UTC 2006


At 10:44 PM -0500 5/4/06, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:

>>> So what actually is the magic incantation that will make this work?
>>>
>>
>> touch /.autorelabel
>> reboot
>> edit grub command line, appending "enforcing=0"
>> continue booting
>> wait
>>
>> SELinux must be active but not enforcing for it to relabel.
>>
>Ah, that might explain some of it, I thought it had to be disabled.
>
>I've now done an init 1, and invoked that command, which did take a
>while, 10 minutes or so.
>Then I re-enabled selinux and rebooted.   Got huge amount of those
>warnings, 2-3 times more than before.  And I spotted this near the end
>of the dmesg:
>May  4 02:49:09 diablo kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
>May  4 02:49:09 diablo kernel: md: autorun ...
>May  4 02:49:10 diablo kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
>
>audit(1146799877.012:325): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=2528
>comm="restorecon" name="config" dev=hda5 ino=12898524
>scontext=root:system_r:re
>storecon_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=file
>
>So I tried, in runlevel 3, restorecon -n /, and got this:
>audit(1146799877.012:325): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=2528
>comm="restorecon" name="config" dev=hda5 ino=12898524
>scontext=root:system_r:re
>storecon_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=file
>
>So whats wrong, and how did I arrive at this condition?

In permissive mode, AVC denials will still be logged, but they have no force.
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