Re: install of kernel 2.6.4-1.298 does not work

[Richard Hally <rhally mindspring com>]

Russell Coker wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:46, Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net> wrote:
>  
>
> > > I had similar problems. Clean install of test2 with selinux in enforcing
> > > mode followed by a yum update. Many of the postinstall scripts reported
> > > failures and after a reboot (to boot the new kernel that didn't get
> > > installed) lots of things were very broken. Permissions on directories
> > > in /var were all messed up (as root I couldn't cd to /var/log to try to
> > > figure out what was going). So I did a clean install of test2 again,
> > > setting selinux to warn only, and things are much happier. It seems like
> > > the default policy of selinux kept many files from being updated
> > > properly.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you file a bug report so I can add to it.
> > >      
> > This is an selinux - rpm problem ... see:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119538
> >    
>
> That one is due to installing packages as staff_r.  The general idea with SE 
> Linux is that you use sysadm_r for such things.  In Fedora su and sudo should 
> change to sysadm_r.  If you login at the console as root you will get 
> sysadm_r.  It should just work.
>
>  
Russel, if  you look at the original post of this thread you will see 
that I was root   and was in sysadm_r and ran into this problem.
thanks for your help,
Richard Hally