Bug 230663

Are you sure your hardware isn't dying?  Please do a memtest86 run to check

Can you tell me how to do this or point me to some instructions (specifically on
a s390x partion)

Consensus on the LSPP call earlier today was this is not likely a hardware
problem as I have had it with 2 partitions on one machine and more minorly with
3 partitions on a differnt machine.

Ok, now on the "other" machine running a GA VM level is having the issue too. 
First I was getting an Illegal Instruction at line 102 in /etc/init.d/sshd error
when attempting to start sshd on a freshly installed machine.

Now after a second reinstall I get this: /usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/libpython2.4.so.1.0: undefined symbol:
libsemanage.semanage_install_sandbox: genhomedircon returned error code 127.

rpm -Uvh --replacepkg python-2 allowed me to use the setsebool package.

Not sure how this is related but when installing today I saw an error when I
updated the kernel during install with yum so I grabbed the package and tried to
update it manually like this.  I also get Illegal Instruction when I attempt to
run zipl.  Attempted to reinstall python (which succeeded) but this problem
persisted.

sh-3.1# rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5.lspp.68.s390x.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel                 ########################################### [100%]
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 90:  4808 Illegal instruction     $lilo >/dev/null

This is what we get when the kernel attempts to boot:
Booting default (2.6.18-8.1.1.el)...
HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 00000102

And when the other kernel is attempted:
CP VI VMSG 2
Booting linux...
HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 00000102


Presumably b/c zipl is corrupted.

On a reinstall everything went fine.

Again not sure how this is related but another data point.  After running
several tests this has begun to happen: 

[root/abat_r/SystemLow@KWUSER1 ~]# passwd -S root
Illegal instruction

Reinstalling python had no affect.

The strace output will be attached.

Created attachment 150160 [details]
Strace output from recently reported passwd issue

As discussed on the LSPP call I was to try this with the lspp.69 kernel however
it happened on install before I was even able to update any to any of the lspp
packages:

Cut and paste from the kickstart install:

*** Common Criteria configuration kickstart ***


Protection profile (capp or lspp) [capp] ? lspp
Bringing up loopback interface:  [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  [  OK  ]
error: /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY: import read failed(-1).

Need to install the certification RPM and updated RPM packages:

lspp-eal4-config-ibm-0.21-1.noarch.rpm


[FIXME] Currently you should also upgrade the following packages
[FIXME] from http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/lspp/
[FIXME]
        acl
        audit audit-libs audit-libs-devel audit-libs-python
        kernel kernel-devel
        libacl libacl-devel
        mcstrans
        openssh openssh-clients openssh-server
        pam pam-devel
        selinux-policy selinux-policy-devel selinux-policy-mls
        selinux-policy-strict selinux-policy-targeted
        vixie-cron

FIXME: updates pending
        rbac-self-test (TBD in config RPM)
        cups (New package pending)

[FIXME] Use a ! escape to put them in the current dir before continuing.

Supply a web URL or a local (absolute) directory name.

If you need to mount a device containing the files,
enter '!' and RETURN to get a shell prompt.

Location [ftp://partners.redhat.com/EAL4_RHEL5/IBM/] ? !

Starting interactive shell, type 'exit' when done
sh-3.1# echo "ARP=no" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
sh-3.1# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/sgrubb.repo
sh-3.1# yum update
/usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libpython2.4.so.1.0: undefined
symbol:

Again after re-installing the python rpm I was able to complete my yum update.
However, I went on to have the problem where passwd continuously returns: passwd: 

Authentication token manipulation error
Changing password for user root.

Per 3/20/2007 meeting with IBM, this bug is urgent, since it blocks IBM's
testing effort. 

Latest install on the partition with GA vM level and the kernel wouldn't boot in
enforcing the first time because it couldn't load the policy.  So I booted to
permissive and was attempting to re-install the policy rpms:

[root//@KWUSER3 capp-lspp-rpms]# rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs selinux-policy-*
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:selinux-policy         ########################################### [ 25%]
   2:selinux-policy-devel   ########################################### [ 50%]
   3:selinux-policy-mls     ########################################### [ 75%]
/usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libpython2.4.so.1.0: undefined
symbol:
libsemanage.semanage_install_sandbox: genhomedircon returned error code 127.
   4:selinux-policy-targeted########################################### [100%]
/usr/bin/python: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libpython2.4.so.1.0: undefined
symbol:
libsemanage.semanage_install_sandbox: genhomedircon returned error code 127.

After reinstalling the python rpm the above task was able to complete
successfully. And after a relabel I was able to boot enforcing.

Can this be closed as not a bug?