From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zombie.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i6TE5NrT018988 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:05:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by zombie.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i6TE5MCb005940 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:05:22 GMT Received: from unknown (HELO hyd) (selinux@tycho.nsa.gov@81.152.10.162 with poptime) by smtp810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jul 2004 14:05:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:16:28 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Dale Amon Cc: SE-Linux Subject: Re: pear-shaped behaviour after enough make reloads Message-ID: <20040729141628.GF8858@lkcl.net> References: <20040728211229.GB18711@lkcl.net> <20040728225322.GE18711@lkcl.net> <20040729104317.GE24051@vnl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20040729104317.GE24051@vnl.com> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:43:17AM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:53:22PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > i had to kill off processes manually one by one, umount the partitions > > manually, poweroff, and i chose to boot with enforcing=0 init 1 in > > order to safely run ldconfig and make relabel. > > > > i find this all a bit odd, i haven't a clue what's causing it. > > Is this particular machine and kernel presently stable > when running the same kernel and no selinux? as a general rule, yes: i have used it to watch tv and dvds... now that you mention it, the hard drive _did_ have a head-crash last week when i was doing a 4.3gbyte disk-image... > I have > seen very strange things happen over the years when > hardware is failing or marginal, power supply voltages > are on the edge... yes, so have i, but having bought eight identical cheap-and-nasty machines ($125ea) where one of the PSUs blew so loud it took out its internal fuse, the plug fuse, the 4-way-block fuse _and_ the mains trip, i didn't want to admit that anything was wrong. > Worth checking before you ruin Stephen Smalley's sleep > and fill it with nightmares of kernel race conditions > and random byte squashers. :-) *lol*. oh, okay then, i'll try running it without selinux for a while, see what happens. l. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.