On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 09:31 -0500, John Johnson wrote: > When I run YUM, it runs briefly, then just sits there. Even when I do > 'setenforce 0'. If I reboot with selinux=0 and the command line, it > works. I can't find any complaints in any logs (tips on this > appreciated too). Is there a way to allow updates without two complete > shutdowns plus a file fix? And if you do a 'touch /.autorelabel; reboot' and do *not* pass selinux=0, then yum hangs again? My suspicion is that you had some other random problem such as a lack of disk space or stale lock file or something, and the time you rebooted with selinux=0 the problem went away for reasons unrelated to SELinux (such as tmp/lock file cleanup on reboot).