[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator (git) and selinux

[Sebastian Vahl]

Am Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:11:11 -0400
schrieb Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>:

> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 09:32 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > Am Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:45:37 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Katz
> > <katzj at redhat.com>:
> > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:51 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > > > Just a small question: Should selinux be enabled on the host
> > > > system or doesn't it matter? I'm asking because I have problems
> > > > with selinux since I use the git version. On my rawhide
> > > > installation selinux is normally disabled and I also don't have
> > > > much experience with selinux itself or interpreting the errors. 
> > > 
> > > If you don't have SELinux enabled (at least in permissive mode),
> > > then you're not going to be able to label the filesystem of the
> > > live CD as you can only set filesystem labels with a policy
> > > loaded.
> > > 
> > > So, short answer, yeah, you have to at least have SELinux in
> > > permissive mode to create a live CD with SELinux enabled
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for explaining this. I have relabeld my filesystem
> > with "/sbin/fixfiles relabel /" and set selinux to permissive mode.
> > But then I'm getting a lot of this errors when booting the livecd:
> > http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=57280149oz6.png
> > http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=82094947cg7.png
> > 
> > Strange is that the timestamp of the files in /dev/.udev (on livecd)
> > is the time of creation of the livecd.
> > 
> > Not sure about this (as I've said: sadly not much experiences with
> > selinux). Chitlesh Goorah guessed that this problem is located on my
> > host system. So I will set up a really clear installation this
> > evening.
> 
> New selinux-policy in today's rawhide fixes these up.

Thanks again. It is working fine now.

Sebastian
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