Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I believe all of my problems started because I had backup > and restored my filesystem and and *somehow* all or some > of the selinux attributes may have been messed up. Reading > the selinux manual, it says that you can rebuild it by touching > a file: /.autorelabel and reboot. I did that, and I still have > the same problem as before - nothing has changed. I checked some > of the file-permissions such as /bin/su and note that they are > correct and other files and directory - so at first mini-check it > all appears to be correct. The restore appears correct throughout > on precursory checks. > > The following are problem I am having.... Calm down... You haven't yet proved that it is SELinux. Temporarily add selinux=0 to your kernel command line. http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/index.html#id2825880 You do this through grub: when you're booting and grub displays it's "choose a kernel" screen, press "e". Choose the line that starts with "kernel", and type "e" to edit this line. At the end, add selinux=0 (making sure that there's a space between that and whatever came before). Press Enter and "b" to boot the system. Now SELinux is disabled (this once). Anything that still remains can't be SELinux's fault. > 1) I cannot login as a non-root user! I have 4 non-root user accounts > and yet I cannot log into any of them except as root! > > I get the following message when attempting to log in: > > ========================================== > Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not > logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some > installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. > Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if > you can fix this problem. > > [] View details (~/.xsession-errors file) > ========================================== > > then I get kicked out of the login session. I assume that you have, in fact, checked for disk space: try the command line df -m Try pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text-mode screen, and log in there as a non-root user. Try running tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1 | grep features where sbd1 is your new filesystem: it may be that you haven't enabled enough for SELinux. A mounted Fedora filesystem returns Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file You should worry if it hasn't got an "ext_attr". You may find that tune2fs -O will let you add this: make sure you've got good backups, though. You may then need to run e2fsck. You shouldn't do this on a mounted filesystem. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | A woodpigeon would, If a woodpigeon could, @westexe.demon.co.uk | But a woodpigeon can't, So it won't. | A woodpigeon could, If a woodpigeon would, | But a woodpigeon doesn't want to. So it doesn't.
