Fatal Error (was: Newbie Needs Help with Kickstart Fedora Installations)

[Gary Ford]

This is slightly off-topic; apologies in advance.

Kelly Brown noted my Internet connectivity limitations and said:
"A suggestion for the download speeds, download bittorrent and use 
that..."

My understanding is that BitTorrent addresses the slow server issue, 
not the limitations imposed by my satellite connection (provided by 
Earthlink as a VAR of DirecWay). Although I can get burst download 
speeds of 200 to 300 kilobytes/second, my upload speed is always about 
1 to 2 kilobytes/second. That reduces my suitability as a BitTorrent 
host.

Philip Rowlands also noted my connectivity limitations and that he 
didn't know where I was located. I'm in rural Colorado (United States). 
Sometimes it is good for us in the open-source software community to 
remember that grass-roots efforts to adopt Linux need to reach all 
kinds of users in all kinds of locales. I live in an area where there 
is no DSL, no cable TV and hence no cable modems, and 40 miles of 
copper wire between my telephone and the ISP point of presence. It is 
about seven miles from my house to the nearest paved road. Most of the 
county I live in did not get telephone service until 1994 (yes, one 
nine nine four). Many rural areas of the United States have similar 
limitations; think what it must be like in the developing nations.

Now a technical question...

I'm trying to run Fedora Core 2 test 3 after a kickstart installation. 
I had assumed that SELinux was disabled by default. When I install, I 
get messages like:

<3> audit(...): avc: denied {XXX} ...
where "XXX" is "gettattr" or "use" or "write" or "search " or several 
others.

When I run rpm to install additional packages, I get thousands of error 
messages like:

/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts:  invalid context 
system_u:object_r:samba_spool_t on line number 1537

In either case, is this evidence that SELinux is enabled and is doing 
strange things?  How do I guarantee that SELinux is not enabled when 
doing a kickstart installation. Thanks.

Gary Ford
Plaid Flannel Software