From: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>
To: Kim Lawson-Jenkins <lawson@itd.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: Kernel panic when using refpolicy
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:44:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189187056.13435.16.camel@gorn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01c7f17a$f2047130$c301000a@PC05>
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:14 -0500, Kim Lawson-Jenkins wrote:
> 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.
You set TYPE=targeted, not TYPE=targeted-mcs, right? If so, I suspect
that you've hit the kernel bug in RHEL5 that happens when the SELinux
MLS support is disabled. Loading a MCS policy turns on the MLS support.
In fact the RHEL5 targeted policy is targeted-mcs, in refpolicy terms.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 18:14 Kernel panic when using refpolicy Kim Lawson-Jenkins
2007-09-07 17:44 ` Christopher J. PeBenito [this message]
2007-09-07 18:56 ` Kim Lawson-Jenkins
2007-09-07 17:44 ` Eric Paris
2007-09-07 17:50 ` Brian M. Williams
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2007-12-29 18:08 Jeremiah Jahn
2007-12-31 16:55 ` Eric Paris
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