policy-1.9.2-9 causes kernel panic during boot

[Ric Letson]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 06:39, jim tate wrote:
> >Once you've booted, you need to remove and reinstall the policy
> >package.  You should have an /etc/security/selinux/policy.16 file.  Your
> >rpm update failed for some reason.
> >
> >- J. Scott Farrow
> >
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> Your right  about the /etc/security/selinux/policy.16 file, I 
> uninstalled policy-1.9.2-9
> and reinstalled policy and the policy.16 file is not being properly 
> created, all that is there
> is file with a big ? in it. Even if i do a rpm -ivh --force, I still get 
> the same error message
> as shown below, but the directory path and uncreated file is there. The 
> line number
> 1131-1758 I edited in, that is the the number of lines that show in 
> error message
> 
> /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts:  invalid context 
> system_u:object_r:amanda_recover_dir_t on line number 1131-1758
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>    1:policy                 ########################################### 
> [100%]
> Can't open '/etc/security/selinux/policy.16':  No such file or directory
> error: %post(policy-1.9.2-9) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
> 
> I have my /etc/sysconfig/selinux file set to SELINUX=permissive , that 
> is the only way
> I can get in without bootup locking up with Kernel Panic!!
> 
> Jim Taate



The policy. file in /etc/security/selinux/ is supposed to be policy.16

If you rename it and load it the kernel panic should go away, I've tried
it here and it worked successfully.

mv /etc/security/selinux/policy. /etc/security/selinux/policy.16
load_policy /etc/security/selinux/policy.16




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