Bug 283621

Summary:	Unable to load SELinux Policy. Machine is in enforcing mode. Halting now.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip>
Component:	selinux-policy	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Pierre Sarrazin 2007-09-08 17:54:15 UTC

After upgrading from FC5 to F7 (with DVD), the system failed to boot and gave
this message:

  Unable to load SELinux Policy. Machine is in enforcing mode. Halting now.
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Kernel is 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.

I worked around this problem by rebooting with the DVD's rescue mode, then I
chrooted to /mnt/sysimage, edited /etc/grub.conf and added "selinux=0" to the
kernel parameters.

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2007-09-10 14:11:49 UTC

This is a labeling problem.  If you change the machine to permissive mode you
should be able to fix the labeling.

Kernel parameters "enforcing=0 autorelabel"  Should cause the machine to boot in
permissive mode and trigger a relabel.

You can also do this at the grub prompt, and do not have to boot the rescue mode.