Anaconda version of 4/3/04 won't enable SELinux

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Sun Apr 4 12:38:42 UTC 2004


George Garvey wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:43:27AM -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
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>>I took the snapshot (via mirror.hiwaay.net - thanks Chris!) 4/3/04 about
>>11:00am EST, and did a "fresh install" via images/boot.iso (HTTP against
>>my snapshot).
>>Anaconda displayed the SELinux options selector menu as a grayed-out box
>>indicating that SELinux was "disabled".  Sure enough,
>>/etc/sysconfig/selinux shows "disabled".
>>Even so, I am getting login failures for any user other than root via
>>any method [console gdm kdm etc....].  There are also avc's appearing in
>>/var/log/messages!
>>    
>>
>
>   Just did the same thing, same mirror, except used NFS. Suprised by
>SELinux being disable in anaconda, too.
>   No problems logging in at all. Lots of avcs from rpm, that's about it.
>
>
>  
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NO there was a problem when we upgraded from kernel policy version 15 to 
16.  So anaconda
was changed to fuzz out selinux if it can't find the policy the kernel 
is asking for.   The kernel asked
for 16 and policy was providing 15.  This should be fixed soon.

Dan





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