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From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Dennis Wronka <linuxweb@gmx.net>
Cc: SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: Policy loading problem
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:40:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242830433.20082.402.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905202242.37606.linuxweb@gmx.net>

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 22:42 +0800, Dennis Wronka wrote:
> Thanks for this, I think we're going somewhere.
> 
> Booting into single-user and running load_policy -i I get this:
> Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: Device or resource busy
> load_policy: Can't load policy: Device or resource busy

Ok, this error just means that something (presumably /sbin/init) has
already mounted selinuxfs on /selinux, so it doesn't really help in
diagnosing the problem.  umount /selinux and try again.

BTW, can we see your kernel .config, particularly the SELINUX options?

> I've seen this before when I was testing around, but didn't find much about 
> this.
> 
> I'll see that I install strace in order to provide a trace.
> 
> libselinux is 2.0.79

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-20 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-18 10:19 avc: denied null Dominick Grift
2009-05-18 12:50 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-18 12:59   ` Dominick Grift
2009-05-18 18:52     ` Eamon Walsh
2009-05-20  3:11     ` Eamon Walsh
2009-05-20  7:21       ` Policy loading problem Dennis Wronka
2009-05-20 11:46         ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-20 13:46           ` Dennis Wronka
2009-05-20 13:49             ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-20 14:07               ` Dennis Wronka
2009-05-20 14:09                 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-20 14:21                   ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-20 14:42                     ` Dennis Wronka
2009-05-20 14:40                       ` Stephen Smalley [this message]
2009-05-20 14:57                         ` Dennis Wronka
2009-05-20 14:59                           ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-20 15:22                             ` Dennis Wronka
2009-05-20 15:44                             ` Dennis Wronka
2009-05-20 16:44                               ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-20 21:01                                 ` Paul Howarth
2009-05-20 15:10                           ` Stephen Smalley
2009-07-07 15:53                             ` Joshua Brindle
2009-05-20 11:08       ` avc: denied null Dominick Grift
2009-05-21  2:36         ` Eamon Walsh
2009-05-21 12:19           ` Dominick Grift
2009-05-21 20:15           ` Dominick Grift

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