Re: Rawhide boot failure: init wants selinux_getenforcemode

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

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:
>
>  /sbin/init: symbol lookup error: /sbin/init: undefined symbol: selinux_getenforcemode
>
>  
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:
>
> - Why am I getting things failing with weird, missing selinux symbols?
>  And why is nobody else complaining about it?
>
>  
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.
>
>  
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? 
>
>  
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...
>
>  
Upgrade to the lastest libselinux.

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