Start-up SELinux/Kernel Issue: Resolved -- sort of
Rahul
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 22 14:16:02 UTC 2006
Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> I had sent two previous messages on this issue and heard not a word.
> I'm really perplexed why it only seems to affect my system ...
>
> In any case the problem was, briefly, that when restarting Rawhide/FC6
> on my Thinkpad A31p laptop, the startup process would get to the point
> that it would draw the fat X in the middle of the screen and then
> hang.
You should use fedora-test list to discuss devel/test tree issues.
Using the original kernel worked fine but newer kernels would
> result in the strange hang. Paying close attention after installing
> the most recent kernel, I noticed a text message just before X took
> over that smacked of SELinux (... avc ... denied ... comm="hwclck"
> ... --- all of this is from memory since I don't know how to freeze
> the screen during startup and I don't know where this message might be
> recorded. It is not in /var/log/messages). Taking a wild guess that
> it might be SELinux, I disabled it and sure enough the system booted
> properly.
>
> So I'll try again: any suggestions on what component I should file a
> bug against?
selinux-policy component.
Any suggestions on how I can capture what is really
> going that SELinux is taking issue with?
>
AVC denied messages are logged in /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit
(if audit daemon is enabled)
Rahul
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