SELinux blocking EVERYTHING!

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:05:16PM -0700, Sean Earp wrote:
 > Hello All-
 > 
 > I haven't updated my FC4T2 installation for a week or so, and did last
 > night ran a yum update to get back on top of the latest releases. 
 > Things went okay until I init 0'd to shut down my computer.  At the
 > screen where all the processes get killed as Fedora goes down, I was
 > recieving tons of error messages that access to this file and that
 > file was blocked.
 > 
 > Today I booted up into Fedora, and I can not get to runlevel 5 as
 > SELinux is blocking EVERYTHING from running.  I can not even "yum
 > update" as SELinux is blocking both the process as well as access to
 > the yum directory.
 > 
 > Is there anything I can do to 1) work around the problem, and 2) send
 > error logs of some sort to help track down the problem?
 > 
 > Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,

I had something like this happen to me about a month ago.
iirc, I booted with selinux=0 and ran 'fixfiles relabel'
and it was fine afterwards.

		Dave