Package managers gone haywire! yum, apt, rpm: pam fixed now but selinux is borked

[Daniel J Walsh]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Monday June 18 2007 9:18:37 am Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>   
>> This sounds like  a labeling problem.  Have you tried to relabel the
>> system.
>>
>> touch /.autorelabel
>> reboot
>>     
>
> I just started a new thread on this issue, since the packaging problems seem 
> to have been resolved for now. "Selinux so badly corrupted machine can't 
> start" -- the machine won't boot to the point where it performs the 
> relabel -- instead it fails to a shell and offers me the option of a reboot 
> or file system check. File system check passes with no problems reported 
> every time I run it. Reboot repeats the same cycle -- flood of errors, fail 
> to shell...
>
>   
Boot in permissive mode to establish the labeling.

kernel flag "enforcing=0" will do this for you.