Anyone on the fedora-selinux-list have any clues for how to proceed with this problem? In a nutshell: I can not get dump to restore the xattr file attributes when booted into the FC5 rescue DVD. Thanks for any answers or ideas! ----- Forwarded message from "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <kayvan@xxxxxxxxxx> ----- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:44:37 -0700 From: "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <kayvan@xxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: dump/restore and SElinux security context problem On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 02:39:43PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 8:06 PM -0700 4/22/06, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > >I used "dump" to create a snapshot of a filesystem, then, using > >the FC5 DVD to boot into rescue mode, used "restore" to recreate it. > > > >The problem: during the restore, for every file, I get messages like this: > > > > restore: lsetxattr ./System.map-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 failed: Invalid argument > > When booting the rescue CD, use the kernel command line: > > linux rescue enforcing=0 > > along with any other options you need (when I remember, I use "hda=noprobe > hdb=noprobe"). This seemed to produce no different effect. The portion of the dmesg output (when booting the rescue CD) follows: security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1161 types, 135 bools, 1 sens, 256 cats security: 55 classes, 38679 rules SELinux: Completing initialization. SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks. SELinux: initialized (dev loop0, type squashfs), not configured for labeling SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev cpuset, type cpuset), not configured for labeling SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts audit(1145840702.919:2): avc: denied { transition } for pid=651 comm="loader" name="bash" dev=loop0 ino=1500 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:anaconda_t:s0 tclass=process [...] SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type ext2), uses xattr kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type ext3), uses xattr After the restore, the "ls -lZ" output, while still booted in the rescue mode, shows this (it's identical for all files): -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp Once booted back up in the FC4 system, the same file shows up as: -rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4smp I am wondering if I have to have the same SELinux policy loaded while in the rescue mode in order to avoid the "lsetxattr: invalid argument" error? How would I go about doing that? ---Kayvan ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92) -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list