install of kernel 2.6.4-1.298 does not work

[Richard Hally]

Russell Coker wrote:

>On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:46, Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> wrote:
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>>>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
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>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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Russel, if  you look at the original post of this thread you will see 
that I was root   and was in sysadm_r and ran into this problem.
thanks for your help,
Richard Hally