Bug 283621 - Unable to load SELinux Policy. Machine is in enforcing mode. Halting now.
Summary: Unable to load SELinux Policy. Machine is in enforcing mode. Halting now.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-08 17:54 UTC by Pierre Sarrazin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-09-10 14:11:49 UTC
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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.
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