kernel panic after policy update failure
jsfarrow at comcast.net
jsfarrow at comcast.net
Sat Apr 3 18:18:49 UTC 2004
I just updated (via yum) to policy-1.9.2-9 on kernel 2.6.4.1-300 and get the following on reboot:
Enforcing mode requested but no policy loaded. Halting now.
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
I tried adding "selinux=0" to the kernel args, and also tried booting single user, but get the same result. I had to boot rescue mode off the iso disc and turn off selinux in /etc/sysconfig/selinux. Now I can boot again.
It turns out that the policy rpm upgrade failed. No biggie, but I am wondering whether it is expected behaviour that you get a kernel panic if you attempt to boot with selinux enabled, but without a policy file (or a damaged file)? As a sysadmin, that concerns me. Perhaps a gentler behaviour would be to dump you in single user mode?
- J. Scott Farrow
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