Rawhide boot failure: init wants selinux_getenforcemode

[Daniel J Walsh]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:

>I'm getting more SELinux-related weirdness on my x86_64 rawhide box.  I
>just did a reboot after an update, and init croaked with:
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>  /sbin/init: symbol lookup error: /sbin/init: undefined symbol: selinux_getenforcemode
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You need to update you libselinux rpm.

>Needless to say, I didn't get the nice graphical login screen I was
>hoping for.  Tossing an older SysVinit package onto the system made it
>bootable, but this episode does bring to mind a few questions:
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>- Why am I getting things failing with weird, missing selinux symbols?
>  And why is nobody else complaining about it?
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You must have a partially upgraded system

>- Why isn't init staticly linked?  As a general rule, I like it better
>  when init actually works regardless of what else might be hosed on the
>  system.
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I know I have read a reason for this, but do not know it off hand.

>- Any chance you could cram a couple more colons into the error message? 
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Yes this does need a colonoscapy.

>The most pressing question for me is the "why only me?" part.  Where is
>selinux_getenforcemode supposed to be defined?  libselinux.so would seem
>to be a likely one, but I don't find it there...
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Upgrade to the lastest libselinux.

>Thanks,
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>jon
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>Jonathan Corbet
>Executive editor, LWN.net
>corbet at lwn.net
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