rawhide report: 20051216 changes
Jim Cornette
fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sat Dec 17 16:52:16 UTC 2005
Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 22:05 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
>>Tom London wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>I'm not getting any of the kernels installed to boot without adding a
>>>>selinux=0 to the boot process. I don't think this is kernel related,
>>>>but something to do with selinux. The kernels get to the point where X
>>>>starts and the cursor appears and then nothing else happens. Dropping
>>>>to the vt (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) shows the hardware initialized, and then
>>>>no further progress.
>
>
>>I got past the problem with SELinux by issuing autorelabel at reboot via
>>grub. After the relabeling, things seem normal without reverting to an
>>earlier policy.
>
>
> I was having same problems, and I did two things this morning.
>
> 1 - I noticed during the rawhide install I did few days ago, that a
> selinux file was not included in the /etc/sysconfig/ dir. So I copied
> the /etc/selinux/config file over to it (which mine is disabled).
>
> 2 - I did a rawhide update as of this morning without having to issue
> any selinux=0 or autorelabels or whatever (which I never did those in
> the previous couple kernels neither).
>
> System seemed to boot up fine this morning though.
>
My system probably would have booted successfully without relabeling the
system. I guess pam needing to have processes reloaded was reason for my
major failure regarding login denials and the actual need for a system
reboot.
With all of the denials, I assumed SELinux to be the culpret. Relabeling
probably helped things out a bit anyway.
Getting things right for making bug reports with so man variables on a
rapidly changing mix of rpms is a bit hard to pinpoint the actual
culpret for system abnormalities.
Jim
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