install of kernel 2.6.4-1.298 does not work

[Russell Coker]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:46, Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> wrote:
> > I had similar problems. Clean install of test2 with selinux in enforcing
> > mode followed by a yum update. Many of the postinstall scripts reported
> > failures and after a reboot (to boot the new kernel that didn't get
> > installed) lots of things were very broken. Permissions on directories
> > in /var were all messed up (as root I couldn't cd to /var/log to try to
> > figure out what was going). So I did a clean install of test2 again,
> > setting selinux to warn only, and things are much happier. It seems like
> > the default policy of selinux kept many files from being updated
> > properly.
> >
> > Let me know if you file a bug report so I can add to it.
>
> This is an selinux - rpm problem ... see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119538

That one is due to installing packages as staff_r.  The general idea with SE 
Linux is that you use sysadm_r for such things.  In Fedora su and sudo should 
change to sysadm_r.  If you login at the console as root you will get 
sysadm_r.  It should just work.

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