Unable to boot with SELinux enabled

David Nielsen david at lovesunix.net
Mon Oct 24 14:17:48 UTC 2005


man, 24 10 2005 kl. 06:58 -0700, skrev Tom London:
> On 10/23/05, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> wrote:
> > lør, 22 10 2005 kl. 23:00 -0400, skrev Richard Hally:
> > > David Nielsen wrote:
> > > > I'm currently seeing a rather odd permission problem when SELinux is
> > > > enabled, it appears that the initscripts don't have the correct
> > > > permissions to create lockfiles (amongst other things I gather). Now I
> > > > would love to file a proper bugreport for this but I have no idea where
> > > > to start. The filesystem has been properly relabeled and I'm running the
> > > > latest targeted policy.
> > > >
> > > > As the system hangs during boot and the logger can't start because of
> > > > permission issues (I think, it doesn't actually complain like iptables
> > > > does) I cannot even acquire a decent log describing the nature of this
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > So could someone point me in the right direction?
> > > >
> > > > Having to set selinux=0 feels so.. dirty.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards
> > > > David Nielsen
> > > >
> > > Try enforcing=0 on the boot line, this should allow you to boot and get
> > > the messages.
> >
> > That seemed to really anger X, now it won't even start when SELinux is
> > disabled - as far as I can tell it attempts to switch domain context and
> > fails.
> >
> > Is anyone succesfully running current rawhide with the targeted policy
> > enabled or is it just my setup that's acting weird?
> >
> > - David
> 
> Targeted/enforcing works for me (with today's rawhide).
> 
> You sure you're running a completely updated rawhide?

Absolutely, installed directly to rawhide Friday from
mirrors.dotsrc.org/fedora - kept it up to date with Katz' wonderful new
pup graphical updater.

- David




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