Unable to boot with SELinux enabled

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 23 03:00:47 UTC 2005


David Nielsen wrote:
> I'm currently seeing a rather odd permission problem when SELinux is
> enabled, it appears that the initscripts don't have the correct
> permissions to create lockfiles (amongst other things I gather). Now I
> would love to file a proper bugreport for this but I have no idea where
> to start. The filesystem has been properly relabeled and I'm running the
> latest targeted policy.
> 
> As the system hangs during boot and the logger can't start because of
> permission issues (I think, it doesn't actually complain like iptables
> does) I cannot even acquire a decent log describing the nature of this
> problem.
> 
> So could someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Having to set selinux=0 feels so.. dirty.
> 
> Kind regards
> David Nielsen
> 
Try enforcing=0 on the boot line, this should allow you to boot and get 
the messages.

HTH
Richard Hally




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