Re: SELinux error booting backup f12

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In short, selinux=0 turns off selinux. enforcing=0 disables it.

Meaning if these are your current parameters you are not using it.

jackson byers <byersjab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Daniel J Walsh wrote
>
>> You can boot with selinux=0 or enforcing=0.  enforcing=0 means that
>> SELinux will block nothing, but maintain the labeling.
>
>1) selinux=0 worked;  booted up into my backup f12, looks good.
>
>2) next tried rebooting with  enforcing=0
>    This was more difficult; the boot process got into relabeling
>     wtth a warning it would take long time.
>     I walked away from the screen maybe 20minutes into the relabeling
>     and when I got back (maybe at 30min time),
>      it had rebooted on its own, but into my main f12.
>      Rebooted yet again into the "enforcing=0" stanza of my backup f12,
>      and it came up this time into my backup f12,
>      with no further relabeling message,
>      so all looks ok here too.
>
>This was a good learning exerience.
>But I must say I am still mostly ignorant of what SELinux is doing,
>why I needed either selinux=0, enforcing=0, in the first place, and
>in particular the "what/why/how" of this relabeling business.
>I have spent some time, not a lot, on googling SELinux, relabeling,
>and I am getting lost in the detail.
>
>thanks for showing me the ropes re selinux=0, enforcing=0
>
>Jack
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