Recent SELinux updates seem to cause Kernel Panic

[Ric Letson]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 10:34, Brandon Petersen wrote:
> A very recent yum upgrade of SELinux for Fedora Core2 Test2, possibly
> policycoreutils, is causing a Kernel Panic during bootup.  I ran 'yum
> upgrade' on the morning of April 5, 2004.  It updated the kernel,
> SELinux packages and more.
> 
> After I attempted to boot, it says:
> 
> Enforcing mode requested but no policy loaded. Halted now.
> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I wish I wrote down all the upgrades that occurred, but it was the
> updates available on the morning of April 5, 2004.
> 
> I am running a Dell Dimension 2100.  It has 196mb of ram, an Intel
> Celeron 800mhz.  It uses the Intel 810 video card.
> 
> I filed this bug under 
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120048
> 
> But I feel like I didn't gather enough information for this bug report.  
> What can I do to file a better report about this in the future, besides 
> printing out the packages that were updated during a 'yum update'?
> 
> Brandon Petersen
> 

The upgrade that I think would be most relevant based upon other
conversations in the fedora-test-list is the probably upgrade to
policy-1.9.2-10


If So (and I'm correct on the issue):

You may fix your system by booting the rescue image on the first disc
(insert the disc, reboot, and type linux rescue at the boot prompt and
press return)

and renaming a file in /etc/security/selinux/
(cd /etc/security/selinux/)

*please note: the directory mentioned here (/etc/security/selinux) is
relative to where the rescue cd mounts your root partition*

The file policy. should be renamed policy.16
(mv policy. policy.16)

A reboot should then return your system to normal.



-- 
Ric Letson, NB2E
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