Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7342
error opening security policy file - installation fails
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
When I try to install red hat 6.1 in graphical mode I get this error after completing the Disk Druid: error opening security policy file /user/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy The installation fails and the computer automatically reboots. I received my distribution on CD-ROM from www.lsl.com I have a Dell Dimension XPS T600 running Win98. P.S. After perusing the message boards I found that several others also have this problem (one has a DEC HiNote U2K Notebook, another is running NT, 4 others are unspecified.) Nobody has found a solution.
The SecurityPolicy message that you are getting is not actually an error, and definitely not what is causing your machine to crash. This message is just the Xserver telling you that it is not able to authenticate the user who started the Xserver . . . this makes sense considering that a "live" system is not running. Please post further information about the failure that you are seeing and we will try to replicate and get a solution to you.
Today I tried installing using the text install. The error message this time was "install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 sending termination signals... done unmounting filesystems..."
I have exactly the same problem, when trying to run the installer. I have a dual Pentium 200 MMX (Tomcat IV board). So far I was unable to get the product installed because of this issue. Under normal circumstances the machine is booted with WinNT boot loader and contains multiple NT and win98 partitions
I also have the "error opening security policy file /user/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy" error. However, I get it straight after booting from the CD or the updated 044 boot.img. It puts me into a constant boot-reboot cycle. Needless to say that this renders my CD-set wortless..., burned ISO-image or not. cheers, Rainer
I have now solved this, by doing a text-install. It would have been nice if the setup-utility had automatically fallen back to this, instead of just rebooting. I have had this error with two systems and both use the Mach64-X-Server. cheers, Rainer
*** Bug 7201 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 7776 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The same thing happened to me (Dell Optiplex GXa, 266 MHz PII, 96 MB RAM). I have a boxed set, purchased last week so I assume that it has the current boot image, but all combinations failed, either with the auto-reboot or sig 11, at least 30 times. I finally succeeded with an "expert text" install, custom (I have NT and need to preserve the MBR), avoiding DiskDruid and running fdisk manually. I have a 1 GB NT partition and created the /boot, swap and / partitions as primary, totalling just over 1 GB.