SELinux not enabled

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Tue Apr 12 19:19:38 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 21:22 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> This works better.  I had to create /selinux first:
> # mount -t selinuxfs none /selinux
> mount: mount point /selinux does not exist
> # mkdir /selinux
> # mount -t selinuxfs none /selinux
> # /usr/sbin/load_policy /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.18
> /usr/sbin/load_policy:  Warning!  Error while getting boolean names:
> Success
> 
> Could that have been the problem (/selinux not being there)?

Yes.  Looking at the /sbin/init code, it should have logged a 'Failed to
mount /selinux: <error message>' message.  Although it may have been too
early to be captured.  Normally, /selinux is created by the installer,
but since you upgraded...

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Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency




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