Unable to boot with SELinux enabled

David Nielsen david at lovesunix.net
Sun Oct 23 19:49:13 UTC 2005


lør, 22 10 2005 kl. 23:00 -0400, skrev Richard Hally:
> 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.

That seemed to really anger X, now it won't even start when SELinux is
disabled - as far as I can tell it attempts to switch domain context and
fails.

Is anyone succesfully running current rawhide with the targeted policy
enabled or is it just my setup that's acting weird?

- David




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