[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator (git) and selinux

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 09:32 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> Am Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:45:37 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:51 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > > Just a small question: Should selinux be enabled on the host system
> > > or doesn't it matter? I'm asking because I have problems with
> > > selinux since I use the git version. On my rawhide installation
> > > selinux is normally disabled and I also don't have much experience
> > > with selinux itself or interpreting the errors. 
> > 
> > If you don't have SELinux enabled (at least in permissive mode), then
> > you're not going to be able to label the filesystem of the live CD as
> > you can only set filesystem labels with a policy loaded.
> > 
> > So, short answer, yeah, you have to at least have SELinux in
> > permissive mode to create a live CD with SELinux enabled
> > 
> 
> Thanks for explaining this. I have relabeld my filesystem
> with "/sbin/fixfiles relabel /" and set selinux to permissive mode. But
> then I'm getting a lot of this errors when booting the livecd:
> http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=57280149oz6.png
> http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=82094947cg7.png
> 
> Strange is that the timestamp of the files in /dev/.udev (on livecd)
> is the time of creation of the livecd.
> 
> Not sure about this (as I've said: sadly not much experiences with
> selinux). Chitlesh Goorah guessed that this problem is located on my
> host system. So I will set up a really clear installation this evening.

New selinux-policy in today's rawhide fixes these up.

Jeremy