Kernel panic when using refpolicy

["Kim Lawson-Jenkins" <lawson@itd.nrl.navy.mil>]

Hi,

I'm running RHEL5.  I downloaded refpolicy-20070629.tar.bz2 and
selinux-refpolicy-sources-20070629-1.noarch.rpm and installed the files for
the reference policy.  When rebooting the system there was a fatal error -
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception.

There were many unknown Boolean errors for libsepol.load.booleans and there
was the following error - 
libsepol.sepol_genbools: error while reading /etc/selinux/refpolicy/Booleans

It looks like ifconfig was running when the kernel panic occurred.  To
recover booted into single-user mode and changed the SELINUXTYPE in the file
/etc/selinux/config from refpolicy to targeted.  I can easily repeat the
problem by using the SELinux Management Tool to change the System Default
Policy Type from targeted to refpolicy and rebooting.  I've looked at all of
the documentation to see if I missed a step or downloaded an incorrect file
but I can't find anything.  Can anyone give me some insight into what the
problem may be?  Thanks in advance for a response.

Kim


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