rawhide report: 20051216 changes

[Jim Cornette]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 22:05 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Tom London wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>I'm not getting any of the kernels installed to boot without adding a
>>>>selinux=0 to the boot process.  I don't think this is kernel related,
>>>>but something to do with selinux.  The kernels get to the point where X
>>>>starts and the cursor appears and then nothing else happens.  Dropping
>>>>to the vt (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) shows the hardware initialized, and then
>>>>no further progress.
> 
> 
>>I got past the problem with SELinux by issuing autorelabel at reboot via 
>>grub. After the relabeling, things seem normal without reverting to an 
>>earlier policy.
> 
> 
> I was having same problems, and I did two things this morning.
> 
> 1 - I noticed during the rawhide install I did few days ago, that a
> selinux file was not included in the /etc/sysconfig/ dir.  So I copied
> the /etc/selinux/config file over to it (which mine is disabled).
> 
> 2 - I did a rawhide update as of this morning without having to issue
> any selinux=0 or autorelabels or whatever (which I never did those in
> the previous couple kernels neither).
> 
> System seemed to boot up fine this morning though.
> 

My system probably would have booted successfully without relabeling the 
system. I guess pam needing to have processes reloaded was reason for my 
major failure regarding login denials and the actual need for a system 
reboot.

With all of the denials, I assumed SELinux to be the culpret. Relabeling 
probably helped things out a bit anyway.

Getting things right for making bug reports with so man variables on a 
rapidly changing mix of rpms is a bit hard to pinpoint the actual 
culpret for system abnormalities.

Jim



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