kernel panic after policy update failure
Gene Czarcinski
gene at czarc.net
Mon Apr 5 19:05:52 UTC 2004
On Monday 05 April 2004 14:50, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> jsfarrow at comcast.net (jsfarrow at comcast.net) said:
> > 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.
>
> enforcing=0 should also let you boot. Not booting with selinux=0
> is fixed in SysVinit-2.85-23.
Experience: It is a bit "cleaner" to boot enforcing=0 rather than selinux=0
(even in single user mode) when you are doing this to fix
policy/policy-sources. Installing/reinstalling these rpms will get a bit
confused if selinux is not running.
Gene
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