On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:31 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Thad Nielsen wrote: > > > David, a similar thing happened to me once after updating a FC4 > > system. No kernel would boot. I ended up booting from a resuce disk, > > editing /etc/selinux/config and setting SELINUX=disabled, then booted > > the system. This would still leave matters to explore but could at > > least get your system up and running again. Good luck! > > Appending > > selinux=0 Booting with enforcing=0 is preferable; it keeps SELinux enabled but switches to permissive mode, where it will simply log the denials that would have occurred while still allowing them to proceed. That avoids having to do a full relabel if/when you re-enable SELinux, as SELinux will keep labeling files while permissive. The denial itself suggests a problem with labeling of the tmpfs /dev mount. kernel and policy version? bugzilla number? -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
