SELinux blocking EVERYTHING!

[Russell Coker]

On Sunday 15 May 2005 05:26, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>  > Today I booted up into Fedora, and I can not get to runlevel 5 as
>  > SELinux is blocking EVERYTHING from running.  I can not even "yum
>  > update" as SELinux is blocking both the process as well as access to
>  > the yum directory.
>
> I had something like this happen to me about a month ago.
> iirc, I booted with selinux=0 and ran 'fixfiles relabel'
> and it was fine afterwards.

Using enforcing=0 is a better option in this case.  While running with 
selinux=0 security labels are not applied automatically, and therefore files 
created at shutdown (such as /etc/mtab) don't get labeled.

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