F8->rawhide + SELinux == no GDM, no bash.

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Andrew Farris wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've create a VMWare guest with F8/x86_64 on it and immediately upgraded
>> it to -devel. (Minus some small gnome-panel multi-lib breakage)
>> However, once I reboot the machine (and init finished it course) I got
>> an "ld 'x' re-spawning too fast" and when I try to ssh into the machine
>> I get greeted by "/bin/bash: Permission denied".
>>
>> If I disable SELinux things seem to work just fine.
>>
>> Oh, I've relabeled the FS (fixfiles relabel, tried again
>> with .autorelabel) but it didn't solve the problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> - Gilboa
> 
> X was not starting for my rawhide x86_64 on VMware Fusion either (on an intel
> macbook).  X is respawning so fast because its probably not finding usable
> screens, check your /var/lib/Xorg.0.log.
> 
> I think the vmware xorg drv package needs rebuilt with abi fixes for the new X
> (thought that had already been done).  I'll be getting that rawhide reinstalled
> again in vmware soon and maybe we can get bugs posted on that.
> 
> Your bash/login issue I'm not sure about, but there have been a couple kernels
> with selinux issues in the last few weeks, make sure you're on a latest sync'd
> mirror and get the latest kernel and selinux policy you can.
> 
You should try again.   Hal was failing to start because hal/policykit
was not being allowed access to a badly placed file, selinux policy has
been updated to temporarily allow this access until hald/policykit is fixed.
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