Bug 189237 - Kernel panic on rpm uninstall
Summary: Kernel panic on rpm uninstall
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Walsh
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-18 15:06 UTC by Felix Bellaby
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: Current
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Last Closed: 2007-03-28 20:04:30 UTC
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Description Felix Bellaby 2006-04-18 15:06:42 UTC 
Description of problem:

The selinux-policy post-install script creates a /etc/selinux/config that sets
SELINUX=enforcing but there is no uninstall script to remove this file or reset
the enforcing policy.

As a result, "rpm -U selinux-policy" causes a kernel panic on reboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

selinux-policy-2.2.23-15

How reproducible:

rpm -U selinux-policy
reboot

Additional info:

I can not see any big problem with just wiping out the /etc/selinux/config file
on rpm uninstall. It should be useless once selinux-policy has gone.
Comment 1 Felix Bellaby 2006-04-18 15:09:43 UTC 
Whoops! Should read "rpm -e selinux-policy" above
Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2006-04-19 15:15:56 UTC 
Fixed in selinux-policy-2.2.33-2
in Rawhide.  Will go in to the next text release for FC-5

echo "SELINUX=disabled" > /etc/selinux/config

should fix the problem
Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2007-03-28 20:04:30 UTC 
Closing bugs
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