install of kernel 2.6.4-1.298 does not work

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:03, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> >
> >I had similar problems. Clean install of test2 with selinux in enforcing
> >mode followed by a yum update. Many of the postinstall scripts reported
> >failures and after a reboot (to boot the new kernel that didn't get
> >installed) lots of things were very broken. Permissions on directories
> >in /var were all messed up (as root I couldn't cd to /var/log to try to
> >figure out what was going). So I did a clean install of test2 again,
> >setting selinux to warn only, and things are much happier. It seems like
> >the default policy of selinux kept many files from being updated
> >properly.
> >
> >Let me know if you file a bug report so I can add to it.
> >  
> >
> Make sure you run newrole -r sysadm_r before execing rpm.
> 
> You should have got an error when you ran or if you are running under 
> unlimitedUsers, it should have
> worked,  The problem is that it half worked.  :^)
> 

I assume that I should have done that newrole command before running yum
since I did not run rpm directly?

I'm not running unlimtedUsers as far as I know. I had the default
install.

tjb
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