Freezes in the beginning and doesn´t starts the x

Yves Vanlerberghe yves at infothek.be
Sat Apr 10 23:24:25 UTC 2004


Yeh.. I know, I should give it a better look but because I messed up
very badly om my actual work box I have to make-do with this testbox.
read: I ain't touching anything :)
I'll tinker with selinux later on, but I'm pretty sure I didn't kill it
though.


On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 00:19, Hannes Mayer wrote:

> Yves Vanlerberghe wrote:
> 
> > I did a yum update yesterday and the whole box just gave up at the point 
> > when the filesystem gets mounted. It said that only root could mount it 
> > and then started spewing out some SELinux errors. Dunno whether this 
> > will help but I got it sorted after adding 'selinux=0' as argument to 
> > the kernel. There's a great faq on the topic somewhere on the redhat site.
> > I think something got screwed up in the policy file so I'll wait for an 
> > updated policy to come trough via Yum before I give selinux another test..
> 
> I also just had a strange experience with SELinux:
> 
> I disabled it in /etc/sysconfig/selinux (SELINUX=disabled) in order to
> run "updatedb", then reenabled it and after that the screen was flooded
> by audit klogd messages.
> 
> I logged in via ssh from another machine and did a "fixfiles relabel"
> That will set the SELinux permissions on all files and after that I
> did't have any audit-klogd messages.
> 
> But sorry, I'm somewhat clueless if it already fails at /sbin/init...
> Maybe via an emergency CD ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
> 
> PS: to disable SELinux temporarily (i.e. to run a command that won't with
> SELinux enabled) use "setenforce 0" and "setenforce 1" to switch it on again.
> 
> 
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