FC5T1 installer hangs after installing glib (audit/selinux issue?)

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Nov 29 15:49:52 UTC 2005


Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> I'll bugzilla this, but I just wanted to check first whether anyone
> else had the same experience. The FC5T1 installer got as far as
> downloading and installing glibc, and then appeared to hang. I checked
> the other virtual consoles, and the last line on console 4 is:
>
> <5>audit(1132789946.808:3): avc: denied  { transition } for  pid=711
> comm="anaconda" name="libgcc_post_upgrade" dev=dm-0 ino=227590
> scontext=system_u:system_r:anaconda_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:rpm_script_t:s0 tclass=process
>
>   
Anaconda runs in non enforcing mode so these messages do not represent 
actual denials.
> I don't usually run selinux, so I don't fully understand how it works.
> Is the above error probably responsible for my hanging install? Has
> anyone else seen this?
>
> I've now left it sitting there for about half an hour, and it seems
> completely wedged. If I switch back to virtual console 8 (where the
> installer is), the GUI isn't even refreshing.
>
> Am I the only one that this happened to? Any suggestions for getting past it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> MEF
>
> --
> __ Mary Ellen Foster __ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ __
> "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
> lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination
> of their C programs." (Robert Firth)
>
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