kernel panic related to SELinux for dec 2nd

[Jim Cornette]

Gene C. wrote:
> On Saturday 03 December 2005 23:19, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>I did not see any bug reports for a kernel panic that I experienced
>>today. The problem seems to be related to SELinux and an improperly
>>labeled filesystem. Am I the only one who ha this happen?
>>
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174919
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>PS - The problem with yum clean all bit me also. Reading the list helped
>>  working around that problem.
> 
> 
> No, you are not unique with the kernel panic.  The problem was answered 
> quickly on the fedora-devel mailing list.  The basic problem is that the last 
> selinux-policy-targeted updated removed athe binary policy so there is NO 
> policy for the kernel.  See 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-December/msg00096.html 
> for description and fix.

Thanks!

Excerpt from message above.

> You can also do a
> 
> semoudle -B /usr/share/selinux/targeted/base.pp to recreate the policy.20 file.

Never heard of semoudle before. Will have to check into.

> 
> Do not reboot until you fix this or else init will crash because you have no policy.

How is one to know the policy was removed until you reboot?
I'll update my bug report with a reference to the post from development.

Jim.