[Fedora-livecd-list] Bug? : Failed SElinux fixfiles causes generated liveCD unable to run in readwrite

[Bill Nottingham]

Hikaru Amano (kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com) said: 
> I'm getting this error when creating a liveCD using livecd-tools
> 
> ========
> /sbin/setfiles:  labeling files under /
> *********************matchpathcon_filespec_eval:  hash table stats:
> 17497 elements, 12838/65536 buckets used, longest chain length 5
> /sbin/setfiles:  labeling files under /tmp
> matchpathcon_filespec_eval:  hash table stats: 2 elements, 2/65536
> buckets used, longest chain length 1
> /sbin/setfiles:  labeling files under /home
> matchpathcon_filespec_eval:  hash table stats: 1 elements, 1/65536
> buckets used, longest chain length 1
> /sbin/setfiles:  labeling files under /mnt/storage
> /sbin/setfiles:  error while labeling files under /mnt/storage
> ========

The hint there is the errors - AFAICT, setfiles is being run on
the wrong root.

> (yup i know i disabled it altogether) .. but I'm wondering what causes
> SElinux to fail in the first place .. i didnt enable SElinux in the
> box that generated the liveCD - is that what causes the error?

Very possibly.

> or is
> it something else ?... and why does the liveCD fails to run as
> readwrite if the SElinux labeling failed ??..

The LiveCD tries to use SELinux by default - if labelling is wrong,
it's *not* going to work.

Bill