i just upgraded to the latest rawhide, including kernel-2.6.6-1.394 and selinux-policy-*-1.13.1-1 among others, and when i reboot selinux is no longer enabled. dmesg shows the following lines: ... Calibrating delay loop... 1708.03 BogoMIPS Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized *** SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) ... however, my boot line was: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.394 ro root=/dev/mapper/Volume00-Fedora and /etc/sysconfig/selinux and /etc/selinux/config both contain: SELINUX=permissive if i boot back into kernel-2.6.6-1.381, then selinux seems to get initialized correctly. gary