Re: SELinux blocking EVERYTHING!

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> >  > Today I booted up into Fedora, and I can not get to runlevel 5 as
> >  > SELinux is blocking EVERYTHING from running.  I can not even "yum
> >  > update" as SELinux is blocking both the process as well as access to
> >  > the yum directory.
> >
> > I had something like this happen to me about a month ago.
> > iirc, I booted with selinux=0 and ran 'fixfiles relabel'
> > and it was fine afterwards.
> 
> Using enforcing=0 is a better option in this case.  While running with
> selinux=0 security labels are not applied automatically, and therefore files
> created at shutdown (such as /etc/mtab) don't get labeled.

That's a good bit of info to know as I'm running my laptop with
selinux=0 because when I connect it to our corporate network DHCP
can't get an IP address with it enabled. Its a Dell D600 laptop with a
Broadcom tg3 network adapter. The DHCP server is (unfortunately) a
Windows 2003SP1 server.

Pete


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