policy-1.9.2-9 causes kernel panic during boot

[Fred New]

Tom Mitchell
On Tue 4/6/2004 7:16 PM, Tom Mitchell wrote:
 
>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.
>
No, I didn't compare the timestamps on the file_contexts files.  I was using rpm to update policy, so it told me that it had created file_contexts.rpmnew.  I just assumed it was newer.

I just installed policy-1.9.2-12 (and policy-sources) and it notified me that it had created file_contexts.rpmnew and policy.16.rpmnew and you are correct:
BEFORE
-rw-r--r--  1 root   81512 Apr  5 21:06 file_contexts
-rw-r--r--  1 root 6433106 Apr  4 16:03 policy.16
AFTER
-rw-r--r--  1 root   82144 Apr  6 20:32 file_contexts
-rw-r--r--  1 root   83257 Apr  6 01:21 file_contexts.rpmnew
-rw-r--r--  1 root 6435946 Apr  6 20:32 policy.16
-rw-r--r--  1 root 6413640 Apr  6 01:21 policy.16.rpmnew

The installation of policy-sources replaced file_contexts and policy.16.  While the installation of the policy RPM (which rpm sequenced before policy-sources) created the .rpmnew files.  The timestamps on file_contexts and policy.16 are consistent with the current time, 21:05.

Fred
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