I wanted to try to not hate SELinux, so I started reading some of the Fedora SELinux docs. I tried to run "semanage boolean -l", which raised an OSError. Since SELinux was disabled, I'm not shocked that there was an error, but this error was particularly unhelpful. Here's the traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/semanage", line 542, in <module> process_args(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/sbin/semanage", line 370, in process_args OBJECT.list(heading, locallist, use_file) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/seobject.py", line 1959, in list ddict = self.get_all(locallist) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/seobject.py", line 1923, in get_all value.append(selinux.security_get_boolean_pending(name)) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory I hope this is helpful. Thanks.
I you want to try out selinux you can run it in permissive mode and it will not block anything. Fixed in policycoreutils-2.0.78-20.fc13.src.rpm The library was trying to read /selinux/booleans for the list of booleans and since you are on a disabled machine these files do not exist.
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This now gives a much better error message: % semanage boolean -l /usr/sbin/semanage: SELinux policy is not managed or store cannot be accessed. % So I'll close this bug.