permission denied errors upgrading kernel

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Dec 12 21:45:58 UTC 2006


Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:47:49AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>   
>> cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:sbin_t:s0': Permission denied
>> cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:insmod_exec_t:s0': Permission denied
>> cp: cannot set setfscreatecon `system_u:object_r:lvm_exec_t:s0': Permission denied
>>     
> [...]
>   
>> I haven't rebooted yet, but presumably it isn't gonna be happy.
>>     
>
> Yep, can't exec init. Thank you, SE Linux! That's about as secure as a
> computer can get.
>
>
>   
chcon -t sbin_t /sbin/mkinitrd

Reinstall the kernel and everything should be ok.




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