at last: info regarding boot problems on multiple partitions

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

FINALLY i got a useable system when i encountered a boot problem
[well, i got a console login].

the issue is that partitions fail to be mounted.

i had noticed over a period of time that programs like pump and dhclient
and some others would stop partitions from being unmounted during
shutdown.

[remember i have /boot, /, /usr, /var and /home]

for some reason, this also caused the partitions to fail to MOUNT on
startup.

just now i was able to log in.

audit2allow shows these:

	allow local_login_t file_t:dir { search }
	allow rpcd_t file_t:dir { search }.

and, sure enough, doing a ls -Z /usr shows that it is, in fact, set to
file_t.

the question is, therefore... why?

i figure it must be because i have that partition mounted.

consequently, the context of the mount point, /usr, never gets set
to a correct context because, of course, make relabel is only ever
run with all partitions mounted.

so.

my question is:

	how do i restore the context of a mount-point....
	whilst it's actually mounted!

l.

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