> > > 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