policy-1.9.2-9 causes kernel panic during boot

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:27:57PM +0300, Fred New wrote:
> 
> In my FC2T2 system, I upgraded from policy-1.9.2-5 to policy-1.9.2-9 and ended up with (as I recall) the following files in /etc/security/selinux:
> 
> file_contexts
> file_contexts.rpmnew
> policy.
> policy.16.rpmsave
> 
> With no guidance on what to do, I renamed file_contexts.rpmnew to
> file_contexts, but I left the policy files as they were.
> 
> Upon booting, init would fail to load the policy,...

Did you check the time stamps.

On one of my recent updates rpmnew was older than the base file.
I disbelieved that rpmnew was new and went to the policy-source
and did the make things.

Since file_contexts contains contexts that result from 
your "users" file and  file_contexts.rpmnew has no way to know
what decisions you made in /etc/security/selinux/src/policy/users
and /etc/security/selinux/src/policy/tunable.te it makes sense to
me that there was a problem.

I would give a lot of attention to the days when a
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/tunable.te.rpmnew and a
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/users.rpmnew show up.  Not to the
extent that would just rename them.


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